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. “There is a crack in everything”: The power of portals
2. Negative Capability: What is it, and how can we train in it?
3. Outrageous Bullshit: “You cannot be serious!”
4. Writing It Cold: Mastering Checkhov’s advice
5. The Three Poisons: Handling emotions
6. Close persona: Voices we’ve known our whole lives
7. Persona: Bringing home the foreign
8. “Tell your story walking”: Keys to dialogue
9. "If it sounds good it is good”: Writing with our ears
10. 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, 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