What my sensible day job taught me about creative writing.

  It was 2014. I was working as a doctor-in-training, and a Professor who I had worked with for several years, approached me about writing an editorial. He’d been asked to contribute the article as a companion piece for a paper about gene therapy in HIV infection*, but was snowed under with work. If 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…

The story so far…

If you are reading this is means that I have finally overcome my fear of blogging.