Write Again: Returning to the Page
with Amanda Oliver
January 29, 2025
4 weeks
Original price was: $345.00.$295.00Current price is: $295.00.
Original price was: $345.00.$295.00Current price is: $295.00.Enroll Now
Meet yourself (again) on the page. This generative course gently but powerfully guides writers from all genres back to writing. If you’ve strayed from, or feel lost within, your current writing practice and are looking for ways to establish and maintain a writing routine, rediscover your voice or focus, and maintain a writing practice that feels manageable, this course is ideal for you.
Through a combination of short lectures, guided exercises and meditations, four writing assignments, peer critique, discussion boards, and cross-genre readings, you will be guided back to your writing and voice. You will leave the course with an individual toolbox of routines and techniques to help you write again with more confidence, precision, and resonance—not just within the four weeks of the course, but beyond.
Above all else, this course is experimental, supportive, joyful, and generative. It is my goal that at the end of the course you see a clearer path forward with your writing.
Who this course is for:
This class is for creative fiction and nonfiction writers who are looking for new access points to writing and feel open to experimenting in a safe, supportive group environment. No prior knowledge is needed—this class is designed to be helpful to both beginners and experienced writers.
This is not the right course for you if you are looking for large amounts of feedback on an existing writing project, or if you are seeking specific guidance on editing and/or publishing. We will naturally touch on these things throughout the course, but it will not be a focus.
Learning and Writing Goals
Learning Goals
In this course, you will:
- Discover new entries and access points to your writing.
- Gain understanding of how and why your writing stops and how to work against these creative blocks.
- Create a personalized toolbox of techniques for starting, and continuing, your writing.
- Connect with a community of writers facing similar challenges.
Writing Goals
In this course, you will:
- Develop a writing practice that is personalized to your life and writing goals.
- Create four new pieces of writing.
- Provide and receive peer feedback on your writing.
- Find potential future writing and accountability partners.
Zoom Schedule
There will be two optional, 60-minute Zoom meetings, where we will discuss our writing challenges and goals for 30 minutes and freewrite together for 30 minutes. Scheduled for Wednesdays, January 29th and February 12th from 7-8 PM Eastern.
General Course Overview
This class is designed to give you a place to explore your writing as well as provide accountability and peer feedback.
Every week you will have five things to work on:
- A lesson that includes a 5-10 minute exercise
- 1-3 related readings
- A writing assignment
- A group discussion question to consider before our Zoom call
- Providing peer feedback to two classmates
Your weekly exercise is for you and your writing. The readings are also for you and your writing. If you have thoughts/feelings/questions about any of the exercises or readings, you can use the comments and discussion sections to share with the class or ask me a question.
Weekly Syllabus
Week 1: Building Writing Routines & Aphorisms
(Re)meet yourself on the page. Maybe you feel you haven’t written one “good” sentence in a long stretch or like one sentence isn’t “enough.” Restore confidence in your writing by examining and practicing the power of aphorisms — short, pithy writing. We’ll also begin with an introduction to building writing routines, a practice in returning to our body, and creating a writer’s notebook.
Week 2: Establishing Routines & The Personal Essay
First Zoom Meeting
An introduction to the power of powerwriting, readings related to the creative mind, and beginning to build our toolbox of writing techniques, with a commitment to select three new tools.
Week 3: Flash & Hybrid Forms
Examining how hybrid and experimental forms, as well as body work, can bring us closer to our writing and our selves, through both reading and practice.
Week 4: Revision Techniques & Epistolary Writing
Second Zoom Meeting
Studying how writing in the form of a letter can be a low-stakes and highly generative gateway into new writing and ideas. We’ll also practice revision techniques on writing from earlier in the course.
Original price was: $345.00.$295.00Current price is: $295.00.Enroll Now
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.
January 29, 2025
4 weeks
Original price was: $345.00.$295.00Current price is: $295.00.
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