The Study Hacks blog offers a number of interesting tips culled from interviews with professional  writers. Not surprisingly, a session on thesis writing will offer similar tips. Of course, everybody is slightly different but I suspect that everyone should be able tick off at least 4 or 5 tips if they want to have any success at writing.

Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Monday Master Class: How to Schedule Your Writing Like a Professional Writer

Professional writers [...] have figured the least painful possible way to schedule a large amount of writing.

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If you are a student — or an amateur writer or blogger — here are some simple rules for emulating the habits of the professionals:

1. Spread out work on an assignment over several days. Coming at it fresh increases its quality.
2. During these days, get up early. Probably earlier than you are used to. Say, around 7 or 8 am. (This means these days will be weekdays, probably early in the week so you can avoid temptations to party the night before).
3. Have a mini-ritual to jump start the day. It should probably involve coffee. Breakfast. Maybe the morning paper. Don’t take too long.
4. Go to the most isolated place possible.
5. To get your mind ready to think, review the last pages you wrote.
6. Work for two or three hours. Then stop.
7. Follow this habit regularly. Don’t write during other times. Don’t write in public places. Don’t start writing the day before.