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Would you mind telling us how long it took you to write? The impression I get is that people routinely underestimate how long good writing takes by orders of ma
by casca 13y ago
Would you mind telling us how long it took you to write? The impression I get is that people routinely underestimate how long good writing takes by orders of magnitude.
Thanks again for publishing this.
- zrail 13y agoSure. 70 hours for the first draft and probably another 70 for the editing and revisions. I had the first draft done on July 1st, then spent two weeks editing before starting the preorders. I was developing the companion rails application at the same time so it's hard to get real numbers.
- MattStopa 13y agoHaving written a Ruby book I would definitely agree, even though my book was very modest in size it took an order of magnitude more work than I had expected. Coming up with code examples, editing, creating a book cover, not to mention how grueling it can be to write especially after a long day of coding.
- astrodust 13y agoAll that and not even a single link to it? Where's the shameless self-promotion slash example?
- vicentereig 13y agohttp://www.therubybook.com/ http://www.therubybook.com/
- MattStopa 13y agoHere is a link to the book. Yeah, I'm pretty shameless but haven't done much promotion yet :-) http://www.amazon.com/The-Rapid-Rubyist-ebook/dp/B00DPQ5P24 http://www.amazon.com/The-Rapid-Rubyist-ebook/dp/B00DPQ5P24