Insecure Writer’s Support Group’s Anniversary! Plus September Movie Preview and New Releases

It’s time for another group posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group! Time to release our fears to the world – or offer encouragement to those who are feeling neurotic. If you’d like to join us, click on the tab above and sign up. We post the first Wednesday of every month. I encourage everyone to visit at least a dozen new blogs and leave a comment. Your words might be the encouragement someone needs.

The awesome co-hosts for the September 3 posting of the IWSG are Kim Lajevardi, Natalie Aguirre, Nancy Gideon, and Diedre Knight!

We need co-hosts for the remainder of the year! Two more for October and four for November and December. And if you can do January, let me know. Leave a comment or send an email.

September 3 question: What are your thoughts on using AI, such as GPChat, Raptor, and others with your writing? Would you use it for research, storybible, or creating outlines\beats?

I think a lot of people are using AI for those things so I wouldn’t be opposed to it. Would never use it to actually write anything though. I can mess that up on my own, thanks.

And happy anniversary to the Insecure Writer’s Support Group! Fourteen years ago, I started this blog hop with maybe forty people joining in. (And at one point, there were 330 of us!) The following year, we set up the IWSG site, and Facebook, X, etc. followed not long after.
Thanks to everyone who has stuck with us over the years. You rock!

And finally, has anyone heard from Roland Yeomans? His last post was for the May IWSG. Sent him emails with no response. If anyone knows, please share!

New Releases!

Edited Out by Rebecca M. Douglass -Seffi Wardwell Mysteries Book 3

Working part-time at the local inn is fun, until everything goes sideways. When a uniformly disliked writer-in-residence turns up dead, the local police ask Seffi to use her botanical knowledge to figure out what killed her. And could she hurry up, before the inn’s business tanks, and takes the bakery down with it?

Find it on Amazon - just $3.99 until October 1.

In the Wake of Honor (Sagebrush Springs Book 1) Melissa Maygrove

When duty called, love paid the price.
Former Union Army lieutenant Jackson Maguire returns to his war-torn hometown with plans to propose to Caroline Bennet, but a crisis of honor forces him to take her sister as his wife instead. When fate reunites them, will Jackson’s confession of his motives be enough to heal Caroline’s shattered heart?

Find it on Amazon You can also find the whole series on Amazon

September Movie Preview

Here are the theatrical releases for September. Descriptions courtesy of the IMDB. Snark provided by me.

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The Conjuring: Last Rites
Director: Michael Chaves
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Patric Wilson, Ben Hardy
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
I guarantee if it makes a boatload of money it won’t be the last rites…

12 –

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Director: Rob Reiner
Stars: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
That band reunites after a 15-year break for one final concert.
This will not go to eleven…

19 –

Xeno
Director: Matthew Loren Oates
Stars: Lulu Wilson, Josh Cooke, Paul Schneider
A teenager makes a terrifying extraterrestrial her friend after it crashes nearby in the desert. The youngster manages to deal with her sad mother and the mother's violent boyfriend while simultaneously protecting her dangerous new buddy.
If ET and Venom had a baby..

26 –

One Battle After Another
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro
When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own's daughter.
Chronicles a day in the life of DiCaprio breaking up with yet another girlfriend when she turns twenty-five.

How do you feel about using AI? What new release catches your attention? And can you co-host the IWSG?

See you next Monday for a slew of movie reviews!!