How to write a novel this year: 'I'm surprised at how much time I find'

It is liberating and terrifying to write whatever comes into my head. The following morning, I read over it: it’s full of cliches• From being happier to quitting sugar – how to achieve your goalAmbition, people say, is an itch, begging to be realised. I’ve been intending to write a book for a decade, and the itching is getting more insistent. I haven’t settled on a genre, let alone a story, but half-formed characters and narratives are swimming in my mind, and it&rsq