I'm exhausted! I spent the morning fixing the timeline problem, which was very complicated and involved moving quite a few things around. I got that done and right, and then went and had lunch. Upon my return, I dove into the problematic last chapter. I decided to leave a few of the cuts I'd made, so I shortened it by ten pages so far, with about two more pages that could go if I still think it's reading long. I'll run this all by muse Margaret later today, but I think the shortened version is so much better. I still have a few things to add to earlier sections - minor stuff, including a couple of review quotes for Stages - but that won't amount to more than a half page. In the end, if I don't make further cuts, we went from 531 manuscript pages to 521.