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 7 was submitted a couple of weeks ago at 3,000 words. At 15 manuscript pages, it was one of the shortest in the book.

Chapter 8 is currently 3,000 words as well, but I have a relatively long way to go. I've written 13 pages of a planned 24, and I might need to go "over". That should be OK, because I might need to trim a page or two from future chapters so its good to be slightly ahead from the projected count.

My main problem has been time. I am starting to fall seriously behind in my writing. I take full blame for that. I am allowing other things to slip into my weekly schedule. For instance, there are a couple of nights a week where I find it very hard to write. Monday nights are tough, because of the lure of Monday Night Football. Wednesdays are impossible because of Star Trek, Amazing Race and CSI. So the number of nights a week that I can write has shrunk, and I need to take better control of that.

Scott