1. Short, regular work schedule. When I'm working on a story or novel, I set a modest daily goal — usually a page or two — and then I meet it every day, doing nothing else while I'm working on it. Writing a page every day gets me more than a novel per year — do the math — and there's always 20 minutes to be found in a day, no matter what else is going on.
2. Leave yourself a rough edge. When you hit your daily word-goal, stop. Stop even if you're in the middle of a sentence. Knitters leave a bit of yarn sticking out of the day's knitting so they know where to pick up the next day — they call it the "hint."
3. Don't be ceremonious. You can put up with noise/silence/kids/discomfort/hunger for 20 minutes.
4. Kill your word-processor. The programmers who wrote your word processor type all day long, every day, and they have the power to buy or acquire any tool they can imagine for entering text into a computer. They don't write their software with Word. They use a text-editor, like vi, Emacs, TextPad, BBEdit, Gedit, or any of a host of editors. [or yWriter]
5. Realtime communications tools are deadly. Anything that requires you to wait for a response, even subconsciously, occupies your attention.
http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html
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