How Do You Structure Your Writing Time?

This might earn me a bonking on the head from those who don’t have the luxury of study leave, but I’m interested in how other ministers or academics structure their days when they have big writing projects they’d like to tackle (say, a doctoral project) and a thousand distractions to lure them away from their desk (don’t we all!?).
Do you have a writing buddy — someone with whom you check in every day to compare notes, cheerlead for, or meet for coffee and procrastination?
Do you leave your home and write at Starbucks? I know my friend Stephanie wrote much of an excellent book on radical welcome that way.
Do you wake up real early, work out, eat a good breakfast, walk the dog, then sit your posterior down for an appointed number of hours, vowing not to budge for any reason, EVEN FOR LAUNDRY (or some other virtuous task […]