In order to carve out time for writing, sometimes you have to draw the line and cut off the email spigot. How?
How? As this 43 Folders article says, this include finding automation and economies of scale. Some examples:

add info on your Contact page explaining what people can expect from you
use auto-responses and email template sstating when you are away or can’t be reached
where necessary send short responses to clarify when you’ll be available again

It’s all about setting expectations.

A great quote from Stephenson’s “Why I am a Bad Correspondent” — why writing is hard work requiring long, uninterrupted spans of time:
Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet hours is a resource that I can put to good use. Two slabs of time, each two hours long, might add up to the same four hours, but are not nearly as productive as an unbroken four. If I know that I am going to be interrupted, I can’t concentrate, and if I suspect that …

WritersTechnology.com issues the second in a series on

The simplest way to track submissions is using a spreadsheet program like Excel. You could also use an online spreadsheet like Google Docs. Create a new spreadsheet and put the following as column headers:
Title of Piece | Length | Genre/Type | Query or Submission? |Market Submitted to | Market’s Address | Pay | Date Sent | Response Time | Response (Y/N) | Accepted? (Y/N) | Due date | Publish date | Pay date | Paid? (Y/N)
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Read below to learn about gDarkRoom — a Google Documents tweak tailored to provide a full-screen writing console with these features:

Full-screen editing usable from any computer
Automatic backups of your documents
Write full-screen on the road and sync your document back up once you reconnect to the Internet

I have long used full-screen text editors for banging out fiction. Having the old-school dark full-screen — free from distractions — makes for the ideal writing environment. Some of the full-screen editors I have used in the past:

Q10 (Windows)
DarkRoom (Windows)
WriteRoom (Mac)
Scrivener (Mac)
JDarkRoom …

The winner fo the 2008 Evangelical Book of the Year–
Is not a book.
For the first time in the awards’ 30-year history, top honors go to an audio Bible —- The Word of Promise, a 21-hour New Testament read by performers including Jim Caviezel as Jesus. Caviezel played the role in Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ.
The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association announced the award Sunday at the International Christian Retail show in Orlando.
Last year the top honor went to a novel — Ever After, by Karen Kingsbury. It was …