Beginning (Again)
A 30-Day Email Course for Women Writers
What if you could choose “that world”—of imagination, language and creation—and enter it again?
Beginning (Again) is inspired by Janet Frame’s early writing life and her decision to choose the world of writing.
It is for women who have written before, but stepped away.
Women who still feel the pull of language, memory and imagination—but are no longer quite sure how to return.
And women who carry an awareness of the lives that came before them:
mothers, grandmothers, women who may have wanted to write, but did not have the freedom or opportunity to do so.
You do.
Beginning (Again) gives you 30 days to return—not by starting from nothing, but by beginning again from what is already there.
There are (at least) four circumstances against writing. Accepting these is crucial to writing a novel. Then there's the fifth: procrastination—until you step into the house of fiction and never look back.
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Why you might be here
You’ve written before.
But somewhere along the way, you stepped away.
Maybe life became too full.
Maybe doubt crept in.
Maybe the longer you stayed away, the harder it became to imagine yourself returning.
You are not starting from nothing.
You already have a history with writing.
Beginning (Again) is for that moment when you want to find your way back to it.
Through Janet Frame’s early writing life, you’ll reflect on your own beginnings, interruptions, silences, and the possibility of choosing writing again.
What This Course Will Help You Do
Over 30 days, you’ll follow parts of Janet Frame’s early writing life and use them as a way into your own.
You’ll return to:
your early experiences of writing;
the moments when writing mattered to you;
the interruptions and silences;
the people and circumstances that shaped your relationship to writing;
and the question of what it might mean to choose writing again now.
The course is not about becoming more productive.
It is about re-entering a writing life you already have a history with.
You do not have to start over.
You can begin again from where you are.
What You’ll Get
10 core lessons + 1 bonus lesson
Inspired by Janet Frame’s early writing life—from her first experiences of writing to her decision to choose the writing life.The Beginning (Again) workbook
A place to write, reflect, remember, and gather what surfaces as you move through the course.A small action with each lesson
Simple ways to return to writing without turning the course into a productivity challenge.
A gentle 30-day structure
Enough shape to help you keep returning, without pressure to produce or perform.A wider sense of creative inheritance
Including the women who came before us—those who wrote, those who wanted to write, and those who never had the chance.
This Course Is for You If…
You’ve stepped away from writing and want to return.
You still feel connected to writing, but no longer quite know how to begin.
You’ve wondered whether too much time has passed.
You want to look back at your own writing history without treating the past as wasted time.
You’re interested in the women who came before you—and in the writing lives they may or may not have been able to live.
You want a gentle structure for returning to writing without turning the process into a productivity challenge.
Meet Your Instructor - Madeleine
Hi, I’m Madeleine Ferre.
I teach women writers, bringing together creative-writing practice, feminist approaches, women’s literary history, and the study of how women have made space for writing in their lives.
My formal studies in creative writing include Forfatterstudiet in Norway and Forfatterakademiet.
In Beginning (Again), I’m less interested in teaching you a set of craft rules than in helping you return to your own history with writing.
We use Janet Frame’s early writing life as a companion for that return: her beginnings, the interruptions around writing, the pull of imagination, and the decision to keep moving toward a writing life.
The course also touches on the women who came before us—those who wrote, those who wanted to write, and those whose circumstances made that difficult or impossible.
The aim is simple:
to help you return to writing without pretending you are beginning from nothing.
You Don’t Need to Start Over.
You do not need to prove that you are a writer before you begin.
You only need to be willing to return.
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