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.

I'm up over 7000 words now, and have almost completed writing the first chapter. I have 27 pages written, and my original plan estimated 30 pages. By the time I'm done with it, I will probably run a few pages over -- around 33 pages.

I have mixed feelings about how its going. On the one hand, it FEELS like it is taking an unbelievably long time to write this one chapter. I find myself wanting to play Grand Theft Auto 3 (an awesome game, by the way) instead of write. There have been too many days since I started this book where I haven't written a single word.

On the other hand, the calendar says I have only been really writing for two weeks. And MS Word reports that I have 993 minutes (around 16.5 hours) of total editing time. That doesn't seem like much at all. Heck, when writing my last book, 16 hours was a typical single (coffee-fueled) session of writing for me... (usually starting in the late afternoon and ending at the next morning.)

Anyways, this is what I will have to contend with over the next three months as I struggle to write the best JavaScript book that ever existed. And hopefully the first JavaScript 2.0 (JS2) book...

Scott