Made some serious forward progress on the novella this morning, jumping from just under 4000 words to a tad over 6000 by the end of my session. Not all of them are new words, exactly. Since I’m revamping an old, abandoned novel I’m making use of details and in some cases entire paragraphs from the existing text, though just about every word is being revised eventually. I’m reaching a point, though, where I have to decide whether I want to keep following the direction of the old plot or take off in a new direction. Remains to be seen.
A lot of things are changing on NCIS. Tony and Gibbs are bickering over Tony’s new girlfriend, fellow NCIS agent EJ. Tony’s breaking Rule #12 about dating coworkers. He thinks he can get a pass because EJ technically isn’t a co-worker and NCIS doesn’t have any rules banning the relationship, but Gibbs makes his stance quite plain: My team, my rules. And now there’s a couple of newbies in the pit: the rest of EJ’s team has arrived, including a giant with basso profundo and a photographic memory. McGee is bent out of shape because Abby is showing the new guy around. For a while I was hearing his name as “Kate,” which brings back memories of early seasons, but I see that his name is really Cade. Remains to be seen whether these new folk are permanent additions to the cast. And where was Vance last night? Don’t think I saw him at all. For a while I thought that the random eyeball that ended up in Tony’s drink last week, the one with the power to open MTAC, might be his, but Duckie feels it came from someone in his thirties, so it’s probably not Vance. Does he have blue eyes anyway? That’s a detail I never notice.
