I was reading a blog entry by @Comicality the other day concerning revisions of old stories. It struck a note (and has an awesome example of revision in an iconic scene from 'Star Wars') as I have lately been digging out some of my old stories and re-reading them. Some of these things are so old they were printed out on a dot matrix printer (don't ask, kids) or even typewritten, complete with Tipp-Ex corrections. It's always interesting to read back your own work. Sometimes it makes you wince; could you really have constructed such a clunky sentence. Other times you think, 'that's not bad at all.' In a few cases, I decided to re-type the stories and found myself instinctively editing as I went along, not to the point that it changed the story arc, just editing out unnecessary purple prose and correcting punctuation and grammar mistakes from a time I knew no better. Occasionally I realised that a plot point could be made more obvious, or that the technology mentioned placed it firmly in the past, when really it could just as well be set in the present day with the addition of mobile phones and computers rather than landlines and newspapers. Of course, many of my stories of the cinema business are always going to have to be set pre-2010, as that was the fateful year when most cinemas changed over from film to digital projection, making thousands of projectionists redundant and projection boxes totally unmanned. Anyway, here is the first of my re-imagined and re-edited cinema stories, 'Wrong Rewards'.