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.

Chapter 3 has been coming along much slower than I planned. In fact, I originally planned to submit it to the publisher on Monday (yesterday). I doubt I will be able to submit it until tomorrow night. This might throw the whole book off schedule for a few days. I'm up to 5700 words on the chapter so far, and I am only half done.

I had originally thought most of my writing was going to occur on the weekend, but that hasn't been the case so far. In the last couple of weeks, I have been writing mostly on weekdays. Usually one day of the weekend is taken up with my personal life (golf, family, friends, parties, etc.) - that's ok, I planned on that. But the remaining weekend day is not being used very effectively just yet. It's very easy to sleep til 11am, go out to lunch and some quick shopping with my wife, come home at 2:30pm, watch football... etc. etc. until 8pm when I begin writing in earnest. Not a very effective use of a Sunday writing-wise.

I find that there just isn't as many distractions during the week. I can begin writing at 7pm and continue through until midnight uninterrupted. I hope my weekends will begin to settle down as the weather gets colder. I need those extra few hours every week!

Scott