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.

What do you do when you are two-thirds finished a chapter, but haven't even said half of the things you intended to say?

You have to either:
a) go back and cut out unnecessary fluff
b) go back and rewrite portions to be more concise
c) say "to heck with it" and submit a chapter that's longer than planned
d) drop a few advanced topics
e) all of the above

I think Sunday night will be major edit night. I'll just keep going, going way long if necessary. Then on Sunday I can cut out some of the things I was not really happy with. I might also be ok with submitting a chapter that is 5 pages too long, and if they want the book to be "on target" as far as page count, I can cut out some stuff later in the book...