Holiday Emotion Exercise Ah. the Winter Solstice. The shortest day of the year, closing on the end of the calendar, and the time the...

Story Generation was our topic for discussion at The Quill & Pint's November Monthly Creative Writing Workshop at the Burbank Public...

In our run-up to this year's NaNo, we've touched on some of the fundamentals of story telling. The three chief components are character,...

Last weekend (October 5th) The Quill & Pint held a workshop at the Buena Vista branch of the Burbank Public Library on how to prepare for...

A 2-part exercise. Whether a character is good or bad; Batman or the Joker, Clarice or Hannibal, to keep the audience in the story, the...

A 2-part exercise. Here are 20 actual loglines from well-known movies, minus the names. You probably know them all, but you're going to...

We all know the feeling ... you sit down at your desk, a cup of coffee or tea (or something stronger) in hand, and a fresh page in front...

Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For this week's assignment, we...

Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For our February 16th meeting,...

Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For our February 16th meeting,...

Each week we feature a story written by one of our members in that weekend's meeting. This week, we started with a random prompt...

Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For our January 27th meeting,...

Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For our January 27th meeting,...

Each week we feature a story written by one or two of our group members at one of our meetings. For this week's featured stories, Erik...

Each week we feature a story written by one or two of our group members at our weekly meetings. For this week's featured stories, we did...

By Erik Day The anthology is ready to take its next leap forward! The collection of stories has eight amazing authors, each of whom have...

By Erik Day Building an incident… One of the great Christmas movies is the original Die Hard. With Bruce Willis as New York cop John...

By Erik Day Margin Notes is a creative aside from the Quill and Pint group. Writing-related thoughts, editorials and observations are...

Each week we feature a story written by one or two of our group members at our weekly meetings. For this week's featured stories, we used...

By Erik Day Whatever stage a story is in, from the germ of an idea to mid-Work In Progress, to a finished manuscript collecting...