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I know that true writers - obviously not me - should be able to write at any time of day. I can't do this and I have tried.  For me the best time is between 9am and 2pm.  After that and my brain slows down so much that I am only capable of slumping, drinking coffee, reading The Sun (because it's easy to power through whatever the politics, I don't care.  I can make my own mind up).

So obviously, in the last ten years, I haven't written ten novels.  I've written two completely, one partly, one just the first three chapters and the most recent, only in my head - and I'm already getting bored with it.

I need to go to an office everyday to write.  Not my shed as isolation causes all manner of grief.  Just two hours a day and then two hours in the pub (my own pub, but not behind the bar as I am incompetent and scared of the sea of expectant faces), someone else's pub with a couple of girlfriends would do just fine.  After that a little lie down and then a walk with the dogs. Perfect - oh and a day a month shopping for one item of clothing.  Partly that's all I can afford and partly it's good discipline.

How do you do it all you  writerly, arty people?