I thought that writing a book would be easy, until now! I started 18 months ago and creeping forward. For those who don't know, I am writing a book on cloud computing in the media industry in collaboration with the Tilburg centre for Creative Computing at the University of Tilburg.

Initially I created a rough outline by defining on a very high level the content of each chapter. With my analytical mind I made a nice planning for each chapter, quarter by quarter. With that planning in mind it would go smooth and straight forward. Now 18 months later I must admit it's not an easy road to ride, roadblocks everywhere. Research of information takes far more time then estimated, reviewing content and doing corrections is painful. Especially as I have the remaining chapters in my head, but still struggling in perfecting the previous chapters. I managed to write till chapter 5, this means I am 2 chapters behind to the initial planning. It's getting painful to move forward, to find the energy to pencil section by section.