Fade in. Swansea, Wales. The scene opens on a hushed front room. A 6-year-old boy taps away on an old-fashioned typewriter, the keys punctuating his thoughts in the gathering shadows. It is past his bedtime, but he fights drowsy temptations, determined to write a novel while his parents sleep. Four hours, scant pages later, his eyes close, his arms drape across the keyboard.
Cut to Yokohama, present day.
Jon Mitchell has never stopped writing since that first attempt as a child. After winning a writing contest sponsored by British television at the age of 11, he realized he might actually be able to make a career of it. He's been writing ever since.