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A collection of scenes from 2025: the life of a writer with three little kids, a wife, house, and fulltime office job. an antique desk sits in the corner of the upstairs room, a narrow bookcase beside it, and a toppling pile of books nearby. A fold out table is across the room, stacked high with bills, to-do lists, paperwork, spare copies of The Darling Killer, and unused parchment paper. I write while my wife puts the two oldest to bed. The youngest sleeps in a crib, the bab

When you're starting out, you should just write for fun. Experiment, find your voice, and fall in love with revising. That's it. I've found that many writers try too much too early. They plot a more complicated story than their skills can accommodate; they start the same project (or different projects) multiple times without sticking it through to the end. Which brings me to my three rules for new writers: