I'm taking a week off of work to (hopefully) finish my book. I've set up some rules for myself...

1) Treat it as a job - show up on time, and finish. I figure that because I'm working from home I could be tempted to put in 20 hours the first day, then start slacking off. I want to put ~50 hours into the book this week, not 100.

2) When working, no work. That is, no Microsoft work when working on the book. I'm burning vacation time to do the book (something I said I'd never do). I'm not going to burn vacation time *and* work!

That's about it. Today I'm working on my final content chapter - Styles. Hopefully I'll finish that in the next couple days, then I can write the Intro chapter, which should be another 25-30 pages. If I can get both of these chapters done this week I'll be golden.