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.

CD Questions Submitted

Today I submitted 41 multiple choice questions destined for the CD-ROM at the back of the book. I still have to write an identical number of questions for the book's Internet web site.

After taking a week to get started on the task, I basically sat down and wrote them in one afternoon. When you're on a roll, you're on a roll. Hopefully, I can do the same thing tomorrow with the web questions and be done with them.

I promised to have this book in by the end of March, and here we are almost at the end of May. To be fair, I did not know about the CD/Web questions when I signed the deal. But still, I was 6 weeks late on an 8 week project. I've said it before, but this is the last time I'm going to try and write a book in two months. It can't be done. OK, maybe it can be done by others, but I have yet to be able to do it.

One issue may be time. When you only have 1 hour or 2 hours a day to work on the book, if that, not much gets done. When you get a day like today, where I was able to work on the thing the whole day, 12 solid hours, you can get a lot done.

I've contacted my agent about arranging my next book. So far, I have not heard back. I'm thinking of writing about wireless technology. Or maybe another .NET book. Or both.

Scott