Oyinkan Braithwaite

I wanted to create the story, a coming of age story about this young woman, but with the added burden of the legacy and the consequences of the choices made by a whole other individual.

Someone you had never met, did not know, but for some reason didn't.

you know were destined to go the way they had gone and what that would be like how that would affect growing up how that would affect the way people treated you and your mental health and that was sort of what I was interested in but I was really struggling with it so I left it as I do there are loads of stories that I start and kind of abandon um and this is one of them but I came back to it in 2023 long story short and all of a sudden I could kind of see a way through

I don't know.

I mean, saying it right now, I was like, hey, that sounds interesting.

It sounds like it could have worked.

But it wasn't working.

It was in first person POV.

I wanted to follow, you know, so the focus would have been Eni, even though her name wasn't Eni then.

She's had like four name changes and I'm still not sure I'm completely satisfied.

But anyhow, she had a different name then and

Um, so it was supposed to follow like this 10 year old all the way to, you know, when she's like 25 and just watch her life.

And, you know, I just wasn't, it wasn't giving me what I needed for lack of a better, it wasn't.

Um, I got very bogged down in 10 year old her and was struggling to kind of get out of it.

And, um, you know, and then at some point I'm like, is this a young adult?

No.

Like, what is this?

Is this a, you know, cause I got so trapped in, in 10 year old her, I think I sort of

was focused on that.

And then I thought, okay, maybe I need to have two points of views.