The other day, I’d been 5 hours deep into my writing when a friend texted me. She wanted to know what I was doing.

I blinked, pushed back from the laptop and looked around. The house was quiet save for two snoring dogs and a refrigerator that desperately needed defrosting.

I picked up the phone and replied, ‘We’re being hunted by a terrifying creature. We might die.’

Her response: ‘Fair enough.’

And she left me to it.