Daddy's Story (ePub)

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 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

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