Scott Duffy's Book Writing Log

An account of my experiences writing computer programming books.

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.

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Chapter 2 Out The Door

Whoot!

Last night I decided to go to sleep shortly after blogging. I decided that it was better to delay the submission by one day than to stay up until 8am.

So tonight I finished the chapter. I even had time to go over it one more time, top to bottom, doing lots of minor edits. I love the "last proofread" edit. As an author, you want the chapter to have good continuity throughout. If you use the term "portfolio project" early in the chapter, and then settle on "team project" near the end, that final edit will catch it.

Anyays, to bed. I had an incredible night writing. Listening to New Order. I just purchased their Best Of... and Rest Of... albums and that got me through the night in blazing speed.

Chapter 2 was 8,156 words with 11 figures.

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