On Medium: Writers’ Group, bathroom-cabinet rummaging and basic life support.
‘Writing was something that I used to do alone, to produce work that I generally filed away and did not share. My words are starting to make it out into the open.’ I just published a piece about the impact of my Writers’ Group on my process. Click the image above or here for the…
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…
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…