I suppose I’d better explain what my writing mind was thinking of, although it was written four or five years ago now, so I don’t care that much. I suppose I’d best wrap it up in a tight little package as John lennon plays.
Since the promotion of the Chief they had been on television an alarming amount of times. They had been at press conferences with SuperMario Pjamas. Basically the Chief is the actor bloke at the begining and a criminal who sets out to weaken the policeforce, hence turning to silly crimes and the promotion of Alex to department head.
The ending, originally, was gonna include the seals mentioned in the zoo at the start orchestrating a terrorist uprising by blowing up the policestation. Mark gets caught in the blast and looses his wisdom teeth.
I wrote this bit of the story in draft, then I lost it. It still exists, on my Acorn computer in the loft in Coventry. I would write it again but at the minute I can’t be assed. That’s it! The journey is better than the destination.
There are other bits that don’t make sense in this version. You see, I wanted to slot it into my novel idea about budget Gods etc, now a sitcom submitted to BBC talent. It was first written in Oct 1994, at lunchtime on apple macintosh. Then Ian Fisher wrecked my disk and I had to rely on a couple of scrumpled printouts. Then in May 1996 it was revitalised. Was it then? I dunno. I started to take these scrumpled bits of paper and make something of them. It got re-drafted, but large chunks stayed the same. It got more complicated, too many subplots and didn’t flow, wasn’t that funny or pure, deleting some of the charms of the 1994 version.
Then in 1999 I got my computer up in Barnsley. It was reaching the end of term and I had too much time on my hands, shamefully few people would visit my little house and I felt lonely and bored. I decided to take both versions, the apple mac and the ‘96 one which was done on my acorn computer, and imalgumate them, well type them up, to PC. A couple more jokes were added, as a few things slipped into my mind when I was typing it but it’s predominantly the same, and just a shitty. I tried to slot it into my Novel that, with my determination, naivity and unlimited ambition, I was trying to write. I didn’t get very far at all, I havn’t got the depth of skill to undertake such a massive assignment and it was overambitious to write 140,000 words or so.
After watching Magnolia in April 2000, Mr Adam Hewitt (star of college production ‘The Hare witch project’) drew my attention to the BBC talent competion. They were crying out for new sitcom ideas, as pleanty of it now is just formulaic bollocks apart from a few gems. The next morning’s lie in I realised my little novel idea would be, what I thought, a great format for a sitcom and I rushed off a script over the forthcoming weeks. I’ll let you know if I get anywhere with that one.