J write, we try to divide the day’s tasks evenly between us,’ J Mexplains. ‘On a typical day one of us will make breakfast for the kids and prepare lunches, while the other drives the children to school. Then we will both settle down to write in our respective offices between 9 and 2:30 or so. At that point, whichever of us didn’t drop off in the morning will leave to pick up the children and run them to their activities; the other will continue to write
