A brief insight into the working habits around here. I regard writing as a job. I may think about it every waking hour seven days a week but generally speaking I only <em>do</em> it Monday to Friday, around eight in the morning to six in the evening.

This means that, just like everyone else, I get Mondayitis. That feeling when you drag yourself to the coalface first thing in the working week and think.... God I'd rather be doing anything else than this.

Did it today at 7.45 am. Faffed around for five hours doing anything but write -- dealing with mail, promotional stuff, accounts (!), other trivia.

At 2pm I looked at the manuscript again thinking... nah, let's do this tomorrow, shall we? Then a couple of notions caught fire. I have a very rough and meaningless daily word target when working. If I get down 1,200 words on the current project I'm happy.

By 6 pm I'd written nearly 2,800 and mapped out two extra scenes. None of which would have happened if I'd knuckled down to the task at eight in the morning.

I love writing. But please don't ask me to explain it. I'm not sure that's possible.