Feeling stuck? Hungry to generate new pages? In 10 recorded lessons, Diana Goetsch will teach you new ways to fill a page, stretch your craft, and restore your love of writing.

Perfect for all genres, each of these classes presents an essential—though seldom taught—skill. Diana helps you practice that skill on the spot, and then there are follow-up sheets, to help you assimilate and train in it.
People have used Actually Writing to restart their practice, maintain a steady writing habit, or just as a generative tool. Some even use this course as basic training—giving themselves an MFA in composing, for a fraction of the cost of a conventional MFA.

1. Narrative Strategies I: Circular patterns
2. Narrative Strategies II: Spiral patterns
3. Narrative Strategies III: Linear patterns
4. Sudden Changes: Reversals
5. How It Goes: Compression & Model tellings
6. It’s Complicated… And that’s a good thing
7. Like This: Metaphor
8. Shall I Compare: Conceit & Allegory
9. Do I Dare?: The Overwhelming Subject
10. The Three Practices (We need them all)

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, LitHub, Poets & Writers 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