Take one vulture . . .

How do you set real life aside and connect with the imaginary worlds you create?  And how long do you write each day/week?
by Catriona
I've been scraping round the dusty corners of my brain trying to work this out for the last ten minutes - gazing out the window at a bit of dead wood sticking up, that looks like a perching vulture. Or maybe a small hawk. But I'm a crimewriter, so vulture. Which would be a terrible way to find a corpse in your garden, wouldn't it? You're admiring a bird, won...