I have been writing this book since I was fourteen. It has actually had five different plots, thirteen rewrites, and has single-handedly kept me from achieving closure with anything in my life ever. I can't finish it. I can't even get beyond page 60. DAMMIT! Oh, well....
The Old Plot
The original plot was about a group of
schoolkids who decided to plan a student revolution because they hated
homework and sarcastic maths teachers, and so was born the Nazi Teapot,
a group who were anti-authority, anti-anti-authority, and anti-Marmite
(except for Alan, who rather liked it). Save for a few humorous moments
(schoolkids shooting down an army helicopter with fireworks, and the surreal
notion of using the boiler house of the school to house a highly experimental
fusion generator that would generate a bubble of antigravity...) this version
was very poor indeed.
The New Plot
Well, this time round, it actually has
one. One of the main characters, Jimmy MacBibble, is possessed by a demon
who turns out to be an ancient Persian god of darkness, and we discover
a whole tangled web of neo-Nazi devil worshippers, ancient Persian urns
that look like Nazi teapots, and pork madras.
One day this may be finished, but I doubt it.