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I have to be honest, reading Darwin has been an incredibly frustrating process for me. Not only is the process complicated, I am also really bored reading Darwin. In class, it was interesting to me that the discussion of whether "The Origin of Species" is boring was looked at from different point of views. It was pointed out that compared to literature of Darwinian time it is not a bad read, but to me it's still boring and this specifically makes it really hard to read. 

In any case, on whether Darwin's story is an example of a "work in progress" I think since we can't ask Darwin what he was thinking, my best guess would be yes. The whole time he's writing he's moving on to something new by saying "and now I will" which to me means that he is moving forward step by step. Also he uses other's work and adds to it. Again, to me that means that Darwin's story is a work in progress that is building new ideas as it progresses.