Gary Numan? No? Just me then.
Fact is, with a day job to keep me busy for 40 hours a week I have to find time to write novels outside of that, which sounds easy but isn’t really. Yes, I have time in the evenings but there are other things to do and people to be with, not least my wife, and her elderly mother, who we’ve looked after for the last few years. She bought me the laptop I’m writing this on as a thank you for all the help I/we gave her when her husband of 62 years died during Covid. Thanks Brenda!
I try to write (or do some marketing) for an hour or two of an evening after work, but once you’ve got home, got changed, made the tea, eaten it, and washed up, there isn’t a lot left. Plus we’re addicted to Below Deck, so we have to fit a few episodes of that in every week. So when my wife wants to watch something else (Downton, Call the Midwife etc.) I scurry away and carry on with the latest project. It’s all about finding free time when you can, but I work best when I can get ‘on a roll’.
I’m lucky to have an hour for lunch at work, so I can eat my sandwiches/salad/pasta/fish pie/keema, etc. quickly and crack on.
I only get 30-40 minutes max, but if I know what I want to get done it’s a really useful writing ‘sprint’ (as we authors say). In fact, I don’t know what I’d do without that time…Oh yes, go for a walk and burn off my lunch, probably.