When I first applied for a career break from the ‘day job’, nearly two years ago, I did wonder if I was going to be able to fill my time given that the bulk of the writing I do is in November for NaNoWriMo.

Sitting here in Starbucks it’s curious to look back on that, and I find myself thinking about writing routines as a handy procrastination tool – since I should be writing. I have to kind of have a run-up to it. So think of this as my warm up (and it beats trawling through Facebook and Twitt...