I liked the information in Andre's post. Aspiring writers would do well to heed his thoughts on outlining. He also states that writing is the easy part and editing is the hard part, and I completely agree.

I wrote a diary during the almost two years I spent writing and revising a book for Manning Publications. I muse about the trad pub process and my feelings on the great slog that is writing a technical book.

http://www.gitmol.com/blog/