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To do………..

7.30am – Get up with the birds and bathe in the ocean, then back for breakfast, scrambled eggs and sit in the garden until 10am.

10am – Sit down and write 1500 words without looking back.

12.15pm – Snorkel around the bay looking for lobsters, then come back and have a couple of pink gins with lunch.

2.30pm–4pm – Siesta.

4pm – Sit in the garden for an hour, then go for another swim.

5pm – Write another 500 words, number the pages, put them in a folder and have a couple of powerful drinks.

7pm – Dinner and scrabble with his wife Ann.

10pm – To bed.

Ian Fleming’s daily routine at Goldeneye, Jamaica, where he wrote the James Bond novels: 2,000 words a day, swims between drafts, and Scrabble before bed.

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