Jude Idada

Jude Idada is a Nigerian actor, poet, playwright and producer best known for writing the feature film, The Tenant. He has also produced and written several other short films and books. Quotes My name is Jude Idada, I am an author and writer and have written several books including A Box of Chocolates – a collection of short stories; Exotica Celestica – a collection of poetry; By My Own Hands – a novel, adult fiction; Oduduwa, King of the Edos – a play and Sankara which is another play. These are published books. Then there is Didi Kanu and the Singing Dwarves of the North, which is a children’s book; Only Crazies are Born in April, which is a collection of short stories which comes out this month. And then the NLNG award winning Boom Boom which is a Children’s book. Around 6 years old… I had read a book. I was a kid at that time, really young and I just travelled with that raft, struggled with the characters and everything. And I think that affected me so fundamentally, that I asked my father, who is the person that writes these books? And after he told me, I said I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to transport people the way the guy did it. I wrote my first novel at 8 years old, and I have been writing since then. I would say that the… first of all, I am eclectic, so everything you have mentioned, sound, sight, even a sequence of events and how they happen, but I think I am more of a philosophical person because I am always asking the What ifs, the Whys, so every time I see or hear something I always ask about the moment before. And that is were my stories come from. From me, interrogating the things that confront me. So I think everything inspires me but my stories come from me trying to answer the why, the who, the when and the where. I think I work better at night. I am a night owl. I like writing when everyone as gone to bed and it’s just me working. Then again when I have been possessed by the story, I can write in a market place. I just keep on going, because I write really fast. So, I can churn out a large amount of literature in a short while. But preferably I like to write at night. Even when I write at night, I put on the TV, and the TV is running, and I am watching, then I am writing. I am not the type of writer that works in silence. My mind strays away when I write in silence. I need something else, I need to engage my mind willingly, not leave it to run by itself. So, when I put on the TV or music, it helps me direct my mind. I like to write at night because I am busy during the day but when possessed by the story, I can write for 24 hours. External links Category:Actors from Nigeria Category:Screenwriters from Nigeria Category:Film producers from Nigeria Category:Poets from Nigeria Category:Playwrights from Nigeria Category:Living people Category:Novelists from Nigeria Category:Short story writers from Nigeria