tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810513327943306746.post3752686202013195663..comments2022-03-26T14:30:35.361-05:00Comments on The Open Source eLearning Blog: A Year of Writing Moodle 1.9 Extension Development - Part 2Jonathan Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00040974836600584391noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810513327943306746.post-35918141245643236932010-05-17T11:34:20.684-05:002010-05-17T11:34:20.684-05:00Thanks for the comment Mary. It's indeed inter...Thanks for the comment Mary. It's indeed interesting how different writers have different methods. I really had motivational issues with the thought of writing for 4-8 hours in a block on the weekend, but working for a shorter block of time just didn't seem like as big of a deal to get started. <br /><br />Working with a co-author worked out well. On the first chapter we tried to write together and it worked fairly well but we found we overlapped some topics. Strangely even when we wrote on the same "topic" we picked different things to say and most of our mutual work was saved by combining paragraphs. After that we did alternating chapters. <br /><br />Luckily Mike and I have a similar enough writing voice that the tone is fairly similar between the various chapters. I after the first three chapters I did work on adjusting my style to match Mike's and of course our copy editors were great in keeping things consistent throughout the book.<br /><br />Mary is working on Moodle 2.0 First Look. https://www.packtpub.com/moodle-2-0-first-look/book<br /><br />I am curious how difficult it is trying to write and print a book on such a moving target?Jonathan Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00040974836600584391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810513327943306746.post-74946889065637601672010-05-12T15:02:22.482-05:002010-05-12T15:02:22.482-05:00Very interesting insight into writers' habits ...Very interesting insight into writers' habits :) I admire and envy your ability as you say in being able to "split the writing up into chunks of 30-45 minutes" I have never been able to do that - I am too tired to think or write in the week and end up writing for hours and hours every other Saturday/Sunday (2 week chapter schedules) in an intense focused burst. I also admire how you managed to co-operate on a book as two authors - not sure I could even manage that :) Look forward to the next installment.Moodle Fairyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10728538028873560600noreply@blogger.com