As I write, I create myself
again and again.
~Joy Harjo
If you’d like a chance to create yourself again and again in (virtual) community, we’d love to have you at the Time to Write! table. Regular writing time with people who know the challenge of the blank page. What better way is there to honor the writer within? Next series begins Sept 3. Join us!
Spend much time with writers and the conversation will turn to the blurry line between truth and fiction. I haven’t seen the film, “Remake,” yet, but from the trailer, I’m guessing it explores the nuances in a fresh way. Here’s the description:
The death of his son causes McElwee, an autobiographical filmmaker, to look back on his life’s work. He eventually turns to his archive of home movies. To what extent did his camera affect their relationship when Adrian was alive? To what extent does it define that relationship now that he is gone? Meanwhile, an effort to adapt McElwee’s first feature, Sherman’s March, into a work of fiction lurches along, giving the filmmaker another perspective from which to meditate on movie making and mortality.
Screens at the Oriental Theater, hosted by Milwaukee Film, Aug 21-27
Mark your calendar: Sept 19 @ 2:00 pm (central) Writers for Democratic Action will bestow the first Gitlin-Auster Defender of Democracy Award on Heather Cox Richardson, author of the Substack Letters from an American. Local watch parties are being planned across the country. Yes, in-person opportunities for you to gather with other writers and lovers of democracy. Stay tuned…
As if there weren’t enough unintended consequences of the rush to AI, here’s one more to consider. Forewarned is forearmed…
but also, this…
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