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.

Once again, I have written an entire chapter in one day, and not even a long day at that. I've been at this for about 5 solid hours, and am two-thirds through Chapter 5 on user-defined classes. Give me a couple of more hours - I feel like I am really on a roll.

On the surface, my progress sucks. Chapter 5 is a stunning 2,431 words to this point, which works out to a measly 6 words a minute. But those 2400 words encompass 13 pages of MS Word text, or 15 book pages. I am aiming for 22 MS Word or 28 book pages, so I am on track. I have been able to fill it a lot more with code and pictures, and that is always a good thing for a introduction-level programming book.

On another topic, I also surprised how quickly the chapters come back to me after the technical review. I submitted Chapter 4 on Monday of last week (October 14). By Tuesday, I received the technical review back from the reviewer. Being the smart cookie that I am, I sent the "incorporated" version of the chapter back to the publisher later that same night. Thankfully, the review only contained a couple of minor points.

Scott