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 made it into the publisher on Wednesday. 8500 words in total. Can you believe the technical reviewer had it back to me by Friday? And I have already done my edits and sent it back in to my editor. Well, the reviewer only made about 5 minor comments, none of them resulting in much more than a single word change here or there. So integrating the TR comments did not take long.

So I sat down today and started Chapter 4. Luckily for me, Chapter 4 is on JavaScript Arrays. It will be short and hopfully easy to write. In the space of three hours, I was able to write 1900 words (9 pages). I figure the entire chapter won't exceed 20 or 25 pages, so I am almost half done. By the time I go to bed tonight, I hope to be done. Of all the books I've ever written (OK, OK, this is only my third), this has been the easiest chapter to write. I shouldn't say that, since I'm not done. Oh well, I've already jinxed myself by thinking it, so might as well say it.

And I missed a whole day of football. Man oh man, what is this world coming to.

Scott