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I’ve now reached another significant step in my DSL book: Final Draft. This is the moment when I declare that I’m done with my content and release it to production. Copy-editing will begin soon, as well indexing, and various other sundry task to turn final text into a book ready to go to the printers.

It doesn’t mean that I’m completely done with the book. I will have to review the copy edits to ensure they are OK. I will also be working intimately with the production process, helping to improve the output for Safari Books Online and assisting the print production. I’ll also fix any errors spotted in the content, such as from people commenting on the rough-cut.

But the important step is that I’m done with the major thinking. I can’t do any big work on the content now unless it’s an emergency, so I’ll only be tidying up little things. I feel a sense of relief, a knowledge that it’s time to let the book go.