Neil Jefferson

I wouldn’t class myself as a literary genius or even someone who really has a firm grasp of coherent written language, but oddly enough I have discovered that I can put my thoughts down in writing. At school I struggled with the simplest of spellings and eventually I was labeled a remedial child, this label was far from the truth and I have never let it stop my progress in life. I have always battled on using my charm and the skills I was blessed with and I haven’t done too badly for myself so don’t worry this is not another sob story, far from it.

Thirty two years have passed by in my life and until now I had never considered picking up a pen and writing something other than a shopping list and I had previously never randomly opened a word document just for fun. If I had done so, it would have been classed as a chore or just an everyday obstacle to survive the day to day grind of work.

It would be nice to say that once upon a time a miracle happened and I could suddenly spell but of cause that didn’t happen, but what did was almost a miracle.

One day I woke up and realized that I didn’t have to hide behind ‘poor spelling’ anymore. That was the day I actually chose to open a word document for fun and found that just because you can’t spell it doesn’t mean you can’t use your imagination and in my case that was the one thing I had in abundance and combined with a heap of determination I just worked round it.

This took me on a long journey which involved very large amounts of spell checking and lengthy debates about my grammar and punctuations skills, or lack of them, with my friend and now newly appointed part- time editor John.

To be honest writing this book has massively changed my way of thinking and I would advise anyone to take on such a project just for the learning curve it can offer you.