Decision Making: choosing love or Fear

In the next 6 weeks I will publish a book to Kindle. I’ve been writing for fifteen years. At 16 I started working on little stories and developing scripts and that’s evolved into writing for a living for a music website or even odd jobs here and there writing TV segments and video game dialogue. I constantly got better, got bigger projects and I felt successful but I’d never written something solely by me and put it out there as a product. The reason was fear.

I’d work on my writing but I’d easily be overcome with the need to have a day job, to take a job that kind of involved writing but not the kind that I wanted to do. Well this year, 2014, I decided to write for me. I’ve developed a comedy-mystery novel series called REX & EDDIE MYSTERIES and the first book is called CATCHEE MONKEY.  I wrote it because it’s the sort of thing I wanted to read. I wrote it for the love of it. For the first time ever I set out to make something out of the love of doing it rather than fear.

Don’t get me wrong, the fear makes regular visits to taunt me and ask me what the hell I’m doing. Sometimes I listen and get caught in it. Luckily I now have a video clip of Jim Carrey giving an inspiration talk about the subject. It did the rounds on the internet a few months ago but its worth a re-watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajMpfPYlHi4