For those new to the writing game (welcome!), it’s worth pointing out that, no matter what you might have been told, writing is not a closed shop. Nor is it one of the dark arts carried out at dead of night over a rotting sheep’s carcass overseen by a murder of crows. Nor is it done while reclining on a sofa with a glass of bubbly Well, not always. And while many writers do so at night when the situation demands (me too sometimes), it’s more mundane than it might seem.