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thequillandpint
May 12, 20211 min read
A Quirky Title Prompt Exercise
For our April 10th workshop, we embarked on creating a story from three lists - a title, a character description, and a story...
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thequillandpint
Feb 15, 20202 min read
Break the Pattern
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,...
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thequillandpint
Jan 18, 20201 min read
Focused on a Dream
What does it mean to dream? Unconscious journeys, waking escapes or a grand vision for the future, a "dream" has a different meaning to...
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thequillandpint
Jan 4, 20202 min read
Against Their Better Judgment
We've recently touched on what happens when a character makes a decision that surprises the author. Usually, this inconvenient moment is...
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thequillandpint
Dec 28, 20192 min read
Showing the Feelings
Holiday Emotion Exercise Ah. the Winter Solstice. The shortest day of the year, closing on the end of the calendar, and the time the...
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thequillandpint
Oct 18, 20193 min read
Building the Scene
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,...
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thequillandpint
Oct 10, 20192 min read
Prepping for National Novel Writing Month
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...
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thequillandpint
Oct 1, 20192 min read
The Compelling Exercise
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...
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thequillandpint
Sep 19, 20193 min read
Reverse Logline Exercise
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...
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thequillandpint
Sep 1, 20193 min read
Getting Past The Blank Page
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...
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thequillandpint
May 18, 20182 min read
Our Reasons for Writing
On April 21 we got into one of the more in-depth discussions about writing we’ve ever had. Here’s a brief section of that conversation...
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