Actually Writing
with Diana Goetsch
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—providing a skillset that is rarely taught, and exhilerating 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.
TAKE THE LIVE CLASS
TAKE THE RECORDED CLASS
WHEN
Thursdays, January 19 - March 23
7pm-8:30pm ET
HOW MUCH
$500 for the series; $475 for Members
WHERE
Zoom
WHAT ELSE
Class recordings available—free of charge—through April 30th.
Jan 19 “There is a crack in everything”: The power of portals
Jan 26 Negative Capability: What is it, and how can we train in it?
Feb 2 Outrageous Bullshit: “You cannot be serious!”
Feb 9 Writing It Cold: Mastering Checkhov’s advice
Feb 16 The Three Poisons: Handling emotions
Feb 23 Close persona: Voices we’ve known our whole lives
Mar 2 Persona: Bringing home the foreign
Mar 9 “Tell your story walking”: Keys to dialogue
Mar 16 “If it sounds good it is good”: Writing with our ears
Mar 23 The Three Talents: One you’re born with, two you must train in
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