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.

Osborne has just posted a sample chapter from my book, How to Do Everything with JavaScript. Publication is getting really close.

Writing is continuing on the next book. I'm on to chapter 2 already. Chapter 1 weighed in at a hefty 12,600 words. Did I mention this was a bigger book? Yes, 700 or so pages, as compared with the last book at only 450 pages. This next book also has a lot less pictures.

Chapter 2 is coming along. As is typically the case with me, writing comes and goes in spurts. Sometimes, I find that I can say what I need to say in only 10 pages. Of course, that won't do, so I have to spend some time adding more detail, some exercises and some figures. So in the end the chapter will be ~70 pages. Yes, I know some people will wonder why the author spent 70 pages talking about the topic when he feels he did a decent job in only 10. Let's just say that bigger books look more impressive to the average reader.