Get Back Into Writing

with Amanda Oliver

Get Back into Writing

November 11, 2024
Single-Day Webinar

Original price was: $79.00.Current price is: $49.00.

Zoom session Monday from 7-8:30 PM Eastern

In this workshop, we will look at how to pick writing back up—and stick with it. We’ll understand what makes us stop writing in the first place: the internal and external barriers that hinder our creativity, such as self-doubt, fear of failure, and time constraints. We’ll discover strategies to overcome these barriers, so we can enjoy a consistent, fulfilling writing practice.

You’ll receive new information and tools to identify your individual writing blocks and struggles, and how to work through them in actionable, specific-to-you ways. You’ll build a conversation with your writing, on your way to a creative practice you can maintain throughout your life.

You will leave the workshop with:

  • Three new techniques to get back into writing.
  • 10 writing prompts that actually work for creating work on your own.
  • An understanding of what it means to be in conversation with your writing life.

Zoom Schedule

We will meet on Zoom on Monday, November 11th at 7 PM Eastern. The final 30 minutes of the session will be reserved for questions.

Note: We will be recording this session to share with future students as a recorded course. In this recording, only the Amanda’s name and video will be visible. We may include Q&A exchanges in the recording, if they would enrich student learning. In this case, your voice would appear on the recording, but not your full name or your video. We will not include any student writing shared in the recording. 

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Student Feedback for Amanda Oliver:

Amanda is the best writing teacher I have ever had. In her classes she creates a culture of constructive kindness — she helps students find ways to write more consistently and offers useful feedback while always being gentle and encouraging. Without her guidance and support I never would have had the courage to write and publish vulnerable work. Amanda made me a better writer. Tara P.

In Amanda’s writing classes, writers feel accepted in bearing their hearts through creative writing by creating a space where people feel comfortable embracing vulnerability. Her two-fold teaching style emboldens one’s experiences—workshops become a supportive community space for all participants to support one another, while one-on-one time allows her to work with you on your piece in depth. She is skilled in discerning the essence of your work, offering constructive critiques that foster its growth, all the while preserving its core sentiment. Kyrié O.

Amanda pivoted me to re-think my writing—not in a discouraging way but in a way where fresh eyes would understand the story. She was like a fog light on a stormy night, guiding me in. Yvette C.

November 11, 2024
Single-Day Webinar

Original price was: $79.00.Current price is: $49.00.

Zoom session Monday from 7-8:30 PM Eastern

amanda oliver

About

Amanda Oliver is the author of the nonfiction book Overdue: Reckoning With the Public Library (Chicago Review Press), named a Best Book of 2022 by Esquire. Her essays have appeared in Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Times, the Rumpus, PANK, and Medium, among many others. She was the nonfiction editor of Joyland Magazine from 2018 to 2023, and she has taught creative writing for the University of California at Riverside. She holds a BA and an MLS from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and an MFA in nonfiction from the University of California at Riverside.

Learn more about Amanda at our interview here: https://writers.com/feature/introducing-amanda-oliver