The advantage of prcaticing on an electric guitar, is that you can unplug it, and it becomes very quite. This means that you can do physical practice (building up muscles and improving coordination) whilst watching telly. It might sound stupid,but when you sat watching telly, have your guitar with you, and rather than trying to actually play anything, just hold it properly, practice putting your fingers on different frets, one at a time at first, then maybe try changing chords. do it as slowly as you need (a minute at a time if you need to) but just keep doing it.
By the time you've finished watching Emmerdale or whatever - 30 mins practice!. I got into the habit of having my guitar with me when watching telly, and I was clocking up anywhere up to 2 hours practice a day without even noticing!!

Taping yourself once a week is a good idea too - and as early as you can, get yourself a metronome to practice with.
Good luck!!!!