Now I write full time (I gave up my job as a book editor which was three days a week in May), I don’t really have a typical day. I don’t like being at home all day, I get lonely, so I work in various libraries nearby. Often I’ll have a lunch in town with someone, a friend, ex-colleague, or a meeting about something, and that throws the day out. You have to be much, much more disciplined when you’re working by yourself, I’ve found it…interesting. Downsides are that you get cabin fever being in the flat too much and start to think you’re going mad. The upsides are that it’s pouring with rain outside and I’m writing this in bed with a cup of tea. And you can go to the cinema in the afternoon by yourself (if you’ve never done this before, do it. It’s brill. Get a Ben and Jerry’s sundae and a Coke! It’s great.)