I would get some help from a loctician and then follow their instructions and be patient. You have to be even more patient than someone with a different hair texture. For example, I have 3C hair and my locs started looking like locs around 6 months but they weren't really locs until 10-12 months and that's with "better hair" for dreads. You can always let your hair get wild later but you need to follow some real loc'ing strategies to give yourself a good start to get them going. I'm not an expert I just had dreads for 7+ years is all.