June Writer’s Night – ChatGPT as a Tool for Writers: An Honest Conversation and Workshop with Kate Beagle

In this era of rapidly developing artificial intelligence, creatives across the world are sounding the alarm. Screenwriters, copywriters, journalists, poets, and novelists are all watching a familiar story unfold: a world that already undervalues their labor is racing to replace it with something cheaper, faster, and altogether less human.

Like so many technological shifts before it, the ringing of the AI bell cannot be unrung. That leaves those of us doing the deeply human work of writing with a choice: resist or adapt.

Yet, perhaps, there is a third path that will allow us to engage with this new technology critically and creatively.

Join us for an honest, writer-centered conversation about ChatGPT as an instrument we may choose to use with care, to fine-tune our own unique vision, rather than as a replacement for the creative process.

Together, let us explore what this technology can do: spark ideas, assist with structure, untangle messy drafts, and provide invaluable (if somewhat dubious) research assistance. And we’ll discuss just as candidly what ChatGPT and similar AI assistants cannot do: capture lived experience, create emotional truth, or tell your unique and authentic story.

Speaker Bio

Kate Beagle is a Grand Junction native, small business owner, and lifelong creative. As the owner, bookkeeper, and office manager of HBJ’s Your Way Grooming, she spends her days caring for the community’s beloved four-legged companions. But at heart, Kate has always been a storyteller. A passionate reader, writer, and world-builder, she tentatively describes herself as a speculative fiction author and proudly serves as Treasurer of the Western Colorado Writers’ Forum, where she’s eager to connect with other lovers of “weird fiction” across the Grand Valley.

Kate’s experience with artificial intelligence—like many of us at the dawn of this new technological era—has been largely self-guided. She’s explored ChatGPT as a creative tool in her own writing practice and is now excited to open a broader, deeper conversation among her fellow writers about what this technology might mean in a world that too often seeks to turn creativity into a commodity.