Tim Weaver’s Writing Routine

“Finish what you’ve started. Then put it away for a while. Come back to it with fresh eyes.”

Before he was an international bestselling author, Tim Weaver was writing about video games. He covered Super Nintendo titles for Total!, wrote features for N64 Magazine, and later became a senior editor at Xbox World. It was fast-paced work—tight deadlines, punchy copy, the next console always on the horizon. But even then, Weaver had another ambition: he wanted to write fiction. Not just short stories or scattered scenes, but full-blown thrillers—books you could lose yourself in.