For more than 11 years, the Quill & Pint has gathered in locations in and around Burbank, California (and points online) for many fun,...

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So you want to write something, but you don’t have something to write. Writing prompts often get your creative juices flowing, but what...

How to get through the six sides of fear

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The best advice I ever got about my writing was also, on its face, pretty dumb. I was fortunate enough to have a colleague who was also...

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There a million stories, from real-life to fictional interpretations, of the act of sabotage. Breaking something on the sly.

Two things about a writer’s relationship with an editor: They are working toward the same goal (making the piece the best it can be), and...

There are times when you sit down to write and the muse flows through you. Story appears on the page with ease and excitement, and you...

The hero slides along the wall, leaving a streak of blood from his wounds. His heartbeat pounds in his ears, drowning out his shallow...

We all have our irrational fears – clowns, alien abductions, zombies, the three little circles formed by the lenses of an iPhone (also...

I came to my journalism career about 40 years too late. I had the instinct and the drive to pursue a topic like Woodward or Bernstein. At...

Words. I don't know how you feel about words, but in my experience, they're skittish little creatures that often have a mind of their...

That screaming you heard last month originating from the Toluca Lake/Burbank area was just me. It sounded like this: “Caliiibriiiii...

The Quill & Pint’s Saturday Creative Writing Workshops are designed to help you pull the roughest of stories out of your brain from an...

I'm writing a story. Maybe you are, too. Something sparked that story: an idea or a conversation in your head. Perhaps it was the look of...

Howdy Writers! Here's what's on deck from The Quill & Pint for February 2023! WORKSHOPS Our upcoming Saturday Creative Writing Workshops...

By the time you read this post, it will be woefully outdated. That’s the speed at which things change in the world of Artificial...