Editing redux

Got through another few pages of the short story this morning. It’s slow going, but worth it, I think. I’m still making some fairly major structural changes, moving paragraphs and sentences, deleting, adding, smoothing. Maybe by the end of tomorrow’s session I’ll have made it to the end and I can print the beastie out and take a look at the big picture to see what I’ve done.

In addition to another batch of archival reviews, I added two new reviews to Onyx: The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon and
The Friends of Meager Fortune by New Brunswick author David Adams Richards.

Eureka was good last night. Another take on Rip Van Winkle, but they managed to both salvage the guy who wakes up after five decades and find a way to get him into age-appropriate condition. I liked the way the sub-plot about Carter’s mystery woman tied into his present-day relationship with his daughter.

Big Brother 8 is going nuclear. I won’t spoil any of the behind-the-scenes stuff I’ve read about events of the past few days, but I don’t know how they’re going to cram all this into tomorrow’s episode and still have time for a vote and an HoH competition. I thought it was hilarious last night when Amber (aka Wah-mber) tried to “make a deal” with Daniele and ended up giving away the farm (with appropriate cash register sound effects) without any prompting whatsoever. I hope she never tries to buy a car without having someone else along or else she’s going to get in deep financial trouble. I wonder if she will break down in tears on The Power of 10.