2017: My year of writing dangerously.
I remember this time last year. I was on maternity leave with my two-month old who was gradually starting to settle. During those early weeks while she slept I managed to finish the initial draft of my first novel that I had been working on for some time. I wondered Now what? Where do I…
Writers’ Group: an unexpected joy
At the start of 2017 I joined the NSW Writers’ Centre and enrolled in a course called “From first draft to polished manuscript”. It was the first formal class I had attended since my Arts degree. Over the previous few years I had cobbled together the first draft of a novel manuscript and I was…