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Baba Daddy
My first memory of writing comes from when I was only ten years old whilst away on a family holiday. Prior to this day I never thought about writing, and it was even further down my life when I rea...view moreMy first memory of writing comes from when I was only ten years old whilst away on a family holiday. Prior to this day I never thought about writing, and it was even further down my life when I realized how important writing was in my life. It was on this holiday where I entered a shop with my mum and dad—most children my age would have wanted a toy, but it was here where I opted to be bought a pen and a pad. Throughout the remainder of the holiday I wrote a diary on my daily activities about what I did and how I was feeling. I never knew here how important what I was doing at that particular moment would become.
Unfortunately my dad became critically ill on our return back to the UK. It was from here that my writing would be a savior for me as my writing was the only way I could express the way I was feeling, as unfortunately I felt neglected by the people who shouldn’t have ignored me and helped me realize what was happening around me. My dad died when I was thirteen; it was a year later when I began to really write my first short novel; I called it “Dad: Life?” The story was based on me; it was a story told by an eleven-year-old as he was confused, unsure of what was happening around him, as he explained his feelings as well as his hate and love to the world. The story developed as he grew older within the story to the point of my dad's death. I hold this story close to me, as it is this story that allowed me to understand that writing was a necessity in my life, but more to the point that it showed me that writing could be powerful in the sense of us using our emotions to explain a story. The working path I took was into retail management, I became a manager from the age of eighteen; this was after working in my brother’s café from the age of eleven, as well as promoting the same store I became a manager in as I dressed as a clown prior to my fast track promotion. I only did this originally to give me some pocket money as I studied my A levels, I never knew what I wanted to become as I got older, maybe the troubles I had as a kid as I grew effected me, so I went with the flow, but I gave a hundred percent in everything I did, and this was the basis of me becoming a manager in retail. So being a manager in retail was my career, I was given the opportunity at an early age and I opted to accept the challenge. I have worked for three big companies, which to all I have contributed with success stories in all my stores. But even whilst doing all this, I never felt at ease with what I was doing as a career.
I have never studied any sort of courses for writing, this has all been self taught through text books, but my main strength which many say is through the emotion I get through the stories I tell. Majority of my writing is based from truth or experiences I have seen. Prior to me writing Daddy's Story, I have written many short film scripts, an auto biography which I wrote to help put my demons away and allow me to focus on my life ahead and forget a past that hurt me in more ways than one. I also love writing stories for children, this is a big dream that one day some of the stories I have written may actually get into print. I also for a year took time out to write a sitcom, again the main character was based on me, and all comical circumstances that occurred to me, friends, or family were included in my episodes.
I became a father in 2011, this without a doubt is my proudest moment, and from the experiences I had as a child growing up the way I did, I always said I would be there for my daughter. Unfortunately the plans I had did not work out the way I wanted, in fact I was led along, and my life went downhill to a very bad place, probably to the worst period of my life. My writing was going to be my only savior, like before I wrote a story titled Daddy's Story, this originally was written to firstly help me get my feelings and emotions out of my head, but also a story for my daughter to explain just how hard life go.view less