Keeping going on writing your novel is very hard when you don't have deadlines.
The hardest part of writing for me is keeping my bum on the chair. As soon as I sit down I start remembering all the important things I should be doing, like cooking a particularly tasty and overachieving family meal, making a grocery list, writing to someone, phoning a friend....
And if I manage to push them aside and really get into my work, as soon as I get stuck the distractions pop up all over again, luring me to do more pressing things that do have deadlines, or to take a quick run around the charity shops.
The answer for me is to play music while I write. I have a huge selection on my PC, and put it on random selection so I never know what song will play next. It seems to keep my distractable brain occupied, while my creative brain gets stuck into my thousand words.
