7:30am – Get up with the birds, bathe in the ocean before breakfast. Come back for a proper breakfast with scrambled eggs and sit in the garden until 10am.

10am – Sit in the bedroom and type 1500 words without looking back.

I make this look rather easy really.

12:15pm – Snorkle in the baylooking for lobsters, come back and have a couple of pink gins with lunch.

2:30-4pm – Siesta

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

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

7pm – Dinner and scrabble with the wife.

10pm – To bed.

[Abridged from Playboy Interview with Ian Fleming]