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10 things that waste your time

THIS MONTH Marcus Padley

We are all flying through life. Busy, busy, busy. Important things to do. So very important. Can't talk, can't stop, can't go, can't come, can't make it, can't do it.

Busy. We all have our own reasons. I write an average 6000 words a day, 250 days of the year. That's 1.5 million words a year. The average length of a novel is 60,000 words. I write 25 novels a year. Excuse me, then, if I'm too busy to comment on your social media post

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