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...

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...