George Orwell said, it’s hard to assess a writer without knowing something about their early development and emotional attitude. So here it is.
I started writing content across genres when I was six and a half: compositions on a winter shovel, essays about my parents' garden, monographs on pets and pen pals, reports on school trips, and even promotions on healthy school snacks at break time.
But there were more schooldays to come and more serious writing to be done. I wrote an ode to a cockroach I had to dwell with in my room while at summer camp, a poem about desperate housewives whose identity was cooked up in a pot of bone broth, a short story about a cosmic vagina declaring her love, and treatises on why politeness is the rudest thing on this planet. My brainchild, a column called 'Bad Apples' in the school magazine, was axed after a few months when I deemed the vice-principal’s literature class ‘a fuzzy froth’. That’s how my girlhood flew by while also spinning the yarn about myself.
After secondary school, I chose to study English Literature and Journalism because I just wanted to read and write. After college, I started working as a journalist and wrote investigative articles which made a waste management company shut down one of its illegally-operated sites, exposed wily customs officers who helped forgers, reported from the 64th Cannes Film Festival and interviewed the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and a degrowth economist called Serge Latouche.
Then I became a freelancer and started writing background studies and industry analyses for companies like Lufthansa and Aldi to help their strategic planning. In 2011, I stretched into copywriting, and two years later did another MA in screenwriting at Goldsmiths. Since then, I have written for charities – Sense, YMCA – and brands like NetscanUk, 3E International, Kobi.design, Mycellion, SoothedintheCity, YogaSynergy and Simon Borg Olivier. I have also written newsletters, blogs, web copy and E-books for companies like Purpose&Company, an executive coaching consultancy in New York, directed two short films, and had another two of my scripts performed at the Proud Archivist.
