Feeling stuck? Sick of your own voice? Hungry to generate new pages? Each week, Diana Goetsch presents new ways to fill a page, stretch your craft, and restore your love of writing. Actually Writing teaches craft at the point of composing—as opposed to revising—transmitting a skillset that is rarely articulated, and energizing to practice. After each 90-minute session you will receive a sheet in your inbox containing a week’s worth of writing ideas. This class attracted a worldwide following during the pandemic, and will be offered one last time this year.
$475-$500
Paragraph Members use discount code AWF22 for $25 off
Sep 29 The Golden Thread: The Theory & Practice of Free-Writing
Oct 6 Turning Against Your Drift: How to Surprise Yourself on the Page
Oct 13 Extraordinary Seeing: The Secret of Description
Oct 20 “I yam what I am”: Quarrels with the Self
Oct 27 Bad Writing… and Why We Need to Get Good at It
Nov 4 Warmth & Precision: Writing from the Central Channel
Nov 11 “You might come here Sunday on a whim”: Using Place as an Engine
Nov 18 “The many, tight, and small concerns”: Working Your Subject
Dec 1 Staying in the Interrogative Mode: What We Say vs. What We Ask
Dec 8 Thirteen Ways of Looking: Lists & Catalogs as a Generative Tool
Diana Goetsch is the author of eight collections of poems, dozens of nonfiction features and columns, and the memoir This Body I Wore, which The New York Times Book Review called “achingly beautiful.” Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Gettysburg Review, The American Scholar, the L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune, Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize, and on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Grace Paley Teaching Fellowship at The New School. www.dianagoetsch.com