I suggested that he camp out up at the Cottage on the EDGE where there are none of the usual distractions... no telephone, no television, and no internet access.
He took me up on the offer, and by all accounts he is well into cracking the back of the book.
Of course there are other distractions, one of which is that it is just so nice up there. This video documents one time when he let a beautiful evening distract him.
;-)