Question: What made you choose to be a scientist instead of a writer? (they are very different areas) also, what made you choose physics/chemistry instead of forensics?

Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 14 Mar 2014:

I don’t feel that being a scientist is THAT different from being a writer because they are both creative jobs that involve making things all the time.

I really wanted to do both but I knew that further education in writing wouldn’t help a writing career much, but I would need to study science to do science. I don’t really feel like I chose science instead of writing because I do still write a bit (my play, for example) and I can go and do more writing whenever I want and I can go do science whenever I want. If I had given up science before now I wouldn’t be able to work in science. The difference is you need knowledge and skills for science but mostly just skills for writing.