Bolker, Joan
1998
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

Write 6 days a week.
Start with 10 minutes of freewriting (write anything) a day.
Move on to 10 minutes of not-quite-so-free writing (write about something that interests you about your thesis) a day.
Write first!
Three options:

1. sit there method (write for fixed amount of time, say 2 hours
2. inspiration method (write until you come up with 1 or 2 decent ideas
3. probably best: many pages method (write fixed number of pages a day)

Start “many pages method” with 3-6 pages a day.
Write fast.
Write messy (not from beginning to end; no spell check; no thesaurus; don’t think about words/phrases/exactness).
Notice the point when it stops flowing.
Stop.
“Parking on the downhill slope” (bullets about what to write about next).
Don’t write too much, you won’t be able to write the next day.
Zero draft: collection of all the messy writing.
First draft: something that makes sense; has a beginning, middle, end.
Set up deadlines so they involve rewards, not punishments: give yourself enough time; watch a movie/concert afterwards.
One way to deal with interruptions from the inside: write them down; perhaps according to topics; and add to the topics; then perhaps deal with it.
Learn to meditate in order to focus?