A Writer's Life

The writing process is strange. It is funny how many things you have to think of before you get to the one that is obviously right. I've been grappling with the sequencing of material after chapter 3, and it is proving really tricky. 

The way I see it, if the book is going to lose its audience it is around chapters 5 or 6. This is kind of where the author and the reader are kind of "going steady", the novelty of the new is starting to wear off and doesn't compensate for the foibles that you start to notice in each other, like that particularly nasty laugh, or the way that you eat pickles from the jar without a spoon.

What's worse, around this point I've got to introduce some quite tough concepts (at least I have if I'm going to make this into a proper programming book). This is a bit like finding a new significant other and then discovering that they want to take you camping in the jungle/potholing/on a parachute jump the following week....

So, chapter 3, where our relationship is still going strong, is now up in preview.

http://www.robmiles.com/xna-book-downloads/

Stay tuned for chapter 4, and lets hope that we can all stay the course together.