I have an Hieronymous Glyph story that my editor rejected, so I decided it would be easy to rework a story centered on a lawyer, a ghost and a ghostwriter into a vehicle for a different lawyer.

I didn't own a TV before I got married, so I'd never watched Night Court. I hadn't even heard of it.

However, Night Court reruns are available on Amazon Prime. I'm now binging my way into season 4.

I've also never written to fit into a defined world before, so this exercise has resulted in a much more major rework of the story than I expected.

For one thing, in my Hieronymous Glyph story, Hieronymous is the hero who comes up with solutions. In Night Court the judge is the hero who solves problems.

I ended up dropping a character arc, adding a new plot line, changing a lot of names and dropping a few jokes.

I did keep the ghost and ghost-writer.

The good news is that when the editor saw my original story he requested "more jokes."

Any day I have to rework a story to have more jokes is a good day.