How to fit a few more precious moments of writing into a busy day around your day job:

Five extremely practical ways:

1. Only wash up/load the dishwasher once a day.
2. Stop checking Facebook, Twitter, your blog stats etc quite so often.
3. Shower faster – or less often. You choose!
4. Cut housework down to the absolute minimum to stay hygienic.
5. Do bigger grocery shops to cut down on trips to the supermarket.

Five extremely effective ways:

1. Sell your children.
2. Shut yourself away from the world for a month.
3. Hire maids, gardeners, cooks etc so you don’t have to do anything other than write.
4. Go without sleep.
5. Type faster.

OK, I never said they were practical!

STOP PRESS: There’s still time to read the brilliant A Song for Europe by Simon Lipson before Eurovision on Saturday on your Kindle. I’ve just had a lovely email from him, in response to my review of the book. What a nice guy.