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 received the first chapter back from the technical reviewer today. I'm happy - the review was mostly positive. If the reviewer found any technical mistakes, I'd be upset with myself. The comments were mostly "Is this relevant?". He's right - I got a bit off track on a couple of the topics.

I am starting to realize the importance of having someone read over your work and provide some constructive criticism. Having those comments has provided me with a new energy - I wanted to sit down and rewrite the problem sections right away. Of course, I need to finish off chapter 2 tonight, so that will have to wait for tomorrow.

It also is good news in a way. I can cut out some of the unnecessary stuff from chapter 1, and put an excess section from chapter 2 in its place. Remember how a couple of days ago I was wondering how I was going to fit everything in to chapter 2? This is the answer - move it to chapter 1!!!

I love it when things just "work out" like that.

Scott