Book Progress #39

I had not expected it to be this difficult to edit the chapter about birds and dinosaurs. I have gone through it several times and I'm still about 11 pages over my target number, and a lot of material is going to have to be excised or collapsed. In fact, I'm afraid that as I make finishing touches this weekend the number of pages is going to balloon rather than shrink.

It would be easy to simply lay out the evidence for how we know birds are living dinosaurs, but that's been done before. This book is not going to be a regurgitation of what others have already done, and I want to introduce some new ideas and information I have not seen mentioned elsewhere.

I still want to get this chapter into shape by the end of the weekend, but it's going to take a lot of work. The contents will still be subject to change after I work it out, but I want to put everything together in such a way that it flows, makes sense, and is interesting to my prospective readers. Here is the latest Wordle for the chapter;

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