Take the plunge! by Lance Horsman

As I sit in my armchair, typing out words to entertain and inform, I realise that there is no other work I would rather be doing. 

For years I did everything but, and it was a hard road. Fighting fatigue, emotional lows, surviving until the weekend to recover, and recovering across enough weekends to make it to a holiday, which, at this point, I needed so desperately that I was living from annual break to annual break.

I needed a job that I didn’t need a holiday from. I worked across industries over a span of 29 years, from café, manufacturing, and construction to insurance projects. I had qualifications, experience, and capability.  But at some level, the wins cost more than I gained.

Ultimately, I asked this: What do I know to be true that I’m not admitting to myself.  The next question was: What am I going to do about it?

I had a draw of manuscripts, half written, semi-hatched and stillborn, like some Frankenstein’s lab where his ADHD had gotten the better of him, and he ran off to chase the cat before the lightning could strike life into his creations.

Despite getting acclaim for creative writing, I still didn’t believe I could do it. I knew that writing made me happy. I knew my inherent nature as an introvert who observed copiously, researched addictively, and commented in ways humorous and verbose, only left me one option – writing.

For too long, I was scared to follow my heart and do what made me happy.  I feared giving up the success of my half-life in corporate instead of doing what gave me peace and chasing it as a living. In answering question one, it was true that I was too scared to take up writing full-time.  What did I do about it?  I took the plunge and self-published 3 months ago. So, how’s it going?  Well, time will tell.

But I know I am at peace, and my cup feels full.  What more could I ask for?

About the Author

I studied Journalism at college, then got a degree in English literature and Ancient History and later a master’s degree in Business. I’ve been writing for ages and have too many other works, books and novellas that need to see the light of day, and finally resolved to make it happen – and escape the clutches of Officetopia and the grey suited sunlight assassins…So here we are.

I also teach Martial arts, run a table-top roleplay group and live in a furrocracy (Where the 4 rescue dogs rule as tyrants from their lofty couch perches). I have a daughter, and she’s amazing.

Bad Medicine is the first book in The Rules of Magic series and is my first published work – Book 2, Court of Fey, is done and currently under edit, and book 3 is underway.