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If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

To this day I clean better than most maids.

I don't like people cleaning my room.

The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.