Hats off to @Jacob Schwartz @Maria Piscione @Sandra Hildreth and @Ameer Ahmed for stepping up to be our first members to practice their pitch at this inaugural pitching session. We did exactly what we set out to do, which was to start feeling more comfortable talking about our projects. There was great feedback and conversation from everyone, which brought helpful suggestions and insights into what it really takes to pitch naturally and successfully. This one ran two hours long, so I am going to probably cut the number of pitchers for each session just so we can continue to get some good discussion and feedback in. I imagine these pitches will only get faster and better as we all get more practice in. THANK YOU to all who attended. I'm also always grateful for @Chris Dyer for always showing up, supporting and for sharing his interesting stories and knowledge. This community continues to show up and share with heart, generosity, and kindness. So grateful for these opportunities to connect from The Forge Community and our fearless leader @David Stem

You all should definitely get your faces in there for the next one. @Anna Fermin thank you for hosting us and @Chris Dyer was droppin' gems again all throughout. I might have even said a few words too :D (a lot, I said a lot.) Matter of fact I might need to shut up more sometimes because we all ended up going for a whole 2 hours instead of 1! So worth it though, one of the best times of my life no exaggerating. Trial run. Everybody was on their game. Feel the strength growing for sure. (P.S. I think this might be my first actual solo posting post here in Writer's Forge general discussion so hi y'all :D. More introductions coming soon I imagine. Slowly but surely...)

For those in the Zoom Pitch meeting today, please give me your opinion of this background for my deck: (You may need to click on it to see the whole slide.)

I’m preparing today's session on using AI to speed up your creative process. I want to make sure I focus on what would actually help this group. So here is poll, What’s the biggest place AI feels unclear, frustrating, or underused for you right now? Comment if your biggest issue isn’t listed — I may use examples from the comments in the session.

TODAY! WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 10AM PST 🎥 JOIN fellow Writer's Forge member @Isaac Tut as he dives into filmmaking with the help of AI.👈🏼 Here's what Isaac says about today's session: In this session, I’ll be sharing how I use AI to make the filmmaking process faster, clearer, and less mentally overwhelming. The goal is not to replace the filmmaker. The goal is to reduce the time and mental load between all the things we constantly juggle when creating: -Story development, structure -Scene breakdowns & Visual beats -Image generation & Style consistency -Shot planning, Repeatable workflows I’ll walk through examples from my own video work and show how I’m using AI as an augmentation layer — not just for random one-off generations, but as a structured process for turning an idea into something visual. We’ll look at how to go from story → scenes → visual beats → images → a repeatable creative workflow that can be modified for your own films, scripts, shorts, or pitch materials. If you’ve ever felt stuck between having a story idea and actually getting it onto the screen visually, this session should give you a practical way to close that gap. Along with the session, I’ll share examples of the work, the breakdown process, and how others can adapt the workflow for their own projects. 🔥ISAAC'S BIO🔥 Career Goal: • Be at the forefront of building the next wave of storytelling(starting with anime). Current work: • Building Ainime.io, for storytelling augmentation with AI and workflow automation. Past work: • Ex-Head of MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab at Boston Scientific •Lead $1M+ Beer Delivery Platform(Running Tap) •Lead a Space Force Missle detection start-up. Other things: • Big family guy • Big on mindset. Looking forward to diving into this with everyone. JOIN THE CALL > SESSION LINK: https://www.skool.com/live/xBHytwChwTt