Hi there. My name is Scott Duffy, and welcome to my book writing log. I have documented the process of writing my last two books on this site, and have started my third. This book will be called Visual Studio Team System In Action, and should be available in 2005.

The book writing has been coming along very slow this week. I'm up to 1800 words - only 280000 or so left to go.

My main problem has been time. My birthday was last Wednesday, and so I was not able to get a lot of writing done in the past three or four days. I only spent two hours at it today. Time is ticking!

The book publisher usually tries to get you to fill out a marketing survey at the start of this process. I have never before seen one this detailed however. They were asking what web sites I like to visit, which conferences I attend, which newsgroups I hang out it, etc. They're looking for a marketing angle, of course. I have to make some suggestions, and I have already come up with a few.

Luckily, the topic I am writing about has a large development community, so it should be fairly easy to find potential customers to market to.

Energy level is not at its highest, but I am making good progress today. Momementum has shifted again in my favor.

Scott