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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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Sep 2, 20193 min read
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Featured Story - Week of March 10, 2019: "Theresa The Tamale Lady"
Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For this week's assignment, we...
thequillandpint
Mar 10, 20194 min read
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Featured Stories, Week of February 17, 2019 Part One: "The Wall"
Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For our February 16th meeting,...
thequillandpint
Mar 3, 20195 min read
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Featured Story, Week of February 10, 2019: "Fish Out Of Water"
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...
thequillandpint
Feb 21, 20194 min read
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Featured Stories, Week of January 27, 2019: Fictional Yelp Reviews, Part ONE
Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For our January 27th meeting,...
thequillandpint
Feb 4, 20197 min read
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Featured Stories, Week of January 28: "Super, Hero." and "Dance Revolution"
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...
thequillandpint
Jan 31, 20194 min read
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Featured Story, Week of December 16, 2018: "Jonas Sees The Light"
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...
thequillandpint
Jan 15, 20193 min read
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Conjuring Autobiographic Magic
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...
thequillandpint
Dec 31, 20182 min read
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Writing a Christmas Calamity
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...
thequillandpint
Dec 22, 20182 min read
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Featured Stories, Week of November 4, 2018: "It's Only The Woods" and "The Freeloader"
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...
thequillandpint
Nov 12, 20184 min read
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A Story's Phenomenal Cosmic Power… in an Itty-Bitty Living Space
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...
thequillandpint
Oct 16, 20188 min read
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Plotting the plot (or, How to Write a Logline)
Last weekend we began the first of four exercises designed to help you think about National Novel Writing Month. Or, as we have come to...
thequillandpint
Oct 10, 20182 min read
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Featured Story, Week of Sept. 22, 2018: "Clarissa"
Each week we feature a story written by one or two of our group members at our weekly meetings. For this week's featured story we passed...
thequillandpint
Sep 26, 20184 min read
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Featured Stories, Week of Sept. 15, 2018: Part One
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 are...
thequillandpint
Sep 23, 20185 min read
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Featured Stories, Week of Sept. 15, 2018: Part Three
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 are...
thequillandpint
Sep 23, 20183 min read
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Featured Stories, Week of Sept. 15, 2018: Part Two
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 are...
thequillandpint
Sep 23, 20184 min read
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Featured Story, Week of Sept. 9, 2018: "Gerty Gets It Good"
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 all...
thequillandpint
Sep 12, 20182 min read
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Featured Story, Week of Aug. 12, 2018: "Harrington and the Jet Pack Attack"
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 all...
thequillandpint
Sep 12, 20183 min read
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Featured Story, Week of July 15, 2018: "The Mech Driver"
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 all...
thequillandpint
Aug 8, 20184 min read
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Featured Story, Week of July 22, 2018: "Fresh Earth"
Each week we feature a story written by one or two of our group members at our weekly meetings. This week's featured stories were based...
thequillandpint
Aug 1, 20184 min read
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