How to map path through creative overwhelm and get writing.

A quick show of hands: how many people bit their lip today? Or maybe the inside of their cheek? Okay, how many of you bit it again...

Greetings from Quill & Pint Central! We’ve been busy giving our website a little bit of a glow-up, and we’re ready to share some of our...

Who's ready to tackle National Novel Writing Month? The Quill & Pint is teaming up with the Burbank Public Library to bring you six...

For our February 12th Creative Writing Workshop, our prompt was to write a story about, rebelling or breaking a rule. This wonderful...

In our August 28th workshop, Erik presented us with a fantastic writing exercise to help enrich your story's world and characters. This...

For our April 10th workshop, we embarked on creating a story from three lists - a title, a character description, and a story...

As 2020 comes to a close, the Quill and Pint wants you to picture the final moments of the year and turn that into a scene. A little like...

This is a deep dive into character construction. Written as a stand-alone exercise, and conducted as the 11/14/2020 writers' workshop,...

This is another deep dive into character construction, with an emphasis on the story's antagonist. Written as a stand-alone exercise, it...

This exercise is based on a request to explore how a writer can use incidental humor in the course of a narrative. For part one, check...

For an absurd amount of time, we left the word Absurdity up on the screen at this week's writers' group. Perhaps we were making a...

This week's writing prompt is inspired by group member Laura M., who suggested we try writing about food. Describing a meal can open a...

Sports stadium Pandemic Now Is The Time Interpret those however they hit you. Is this the here-and-now; live sports in the time of a...

We know a worn-out story when we see one: tropes become narrative traps and archetypes become stereotypes. But is the story itself worn...

Thanks everyone who joined today's online writers group! We had a lot of fun with this one! During quarantine we'll continue to host...

Workshop Exercise: April 11, 2020 Journal Entry 43,297: Lockdown, day 907. All of my pens have run out of ink. All my paper is now the...

Establishing a Cycle – and Blowing It Up Real life, or at least most of it, is a series of patterns. Those patterns define our reality,...

What does it mean to dream? Unconscious journeys, waking escapes or a grand vision for the future, a "dream" has a different meaning to...

We've recently touched on what happens when a character makes a decision that surprises the author. Usually, this inconvenient moment is...