Last updated on February 25, 2026
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I am my biggest challenge, and I am used to it. I can be beautiful in my own way, big as a house, blocking every attempt to go through.
I am a master in overthinking, and I can question myself to the point of complete defeat.
However…I know this about myself, which helps to tame the beast.
Whatever I have faced in life so far, there has always been the cloud of self-doubt lingering over me. Every moment of victory or joy was quickly overcast. Overcoming myself, that’s always a bonus challenge I get for free.
Over the next six months, I want to record my own audiobook, and I have to thank a very famous British actress, who unknowingly convinced me that I would be my own best narrator, because she butchered with her overly theatrical voice a book I had been looking forward to listening to. She was too dramatic with a true story that didn’t require any added drama. Sometimes life itself has the biggest voice.
Where will my studio be and what will it look like?
It has to be cheap, that’s for sure. Whatever equipment I will use, it has to have a decent resale value.
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This is how I want it to look, perhaps even with the lavalamp. But where in our house do I find such a space?
I walked from room to room, recorded my voice, listened to the background noises and the echo, and finally, I found my spot. In our attic. An insulated small space. The windowless room is carpeted, and all I now need is a chair, furniture-blankets, and a room divider to make it my studio-space.
No windows also means no heat or A/C, so I think it might be a little bit of a challenge to get it all done until the end of summer. Six months, one hour a day, Monday-Friday. It should be doable. Running power underneath the door, having a quiet fan circulating the air. It sounds realistic (or optimistic).
My challenge will be to keep going and finish narrating my own book, however horrible I think it might sound. Overcoming myself as usual. Silencing all the ‘what ifs’ that will circle in my mind.
I will narrate one hour a day and will continue my normal work, because we have to make a living, and then there is my everyday routine, the housework, the yardwork, the maid service that most of us women provide.
I need to make this fun, or I will fail.
Sometimes I think I need challenges to overcome my own fears and limitations.
The microphone will be ordered on Friday, and a used interface is on its way via eBay package.
I don’t need luck, but I need to get out of my own head as usual.
Here is the link to my book, in case you can’t wait for the audiobook 🙂
I am certain this will be a great audio book. I hope you remember pictures of your dogs in you little studio. They will help keep you out of your head.
Good luck. I’m surprised more writers don’t do this. It will turn out great.
This is a huge project but I have no doubt you will do it, and do it well. xo
Go, Bridget! I’ll be cheering you on…your post made me smile. Full of self-knowledge and insight…not least of which was this: “Sometimes life itself has the biggest voice.” I know you’ll do a great job…you being you. 😉💝😉
What an exciting thing to do! I do not doubt at all that you will do it, will overcome any hiccups along the way, and, in time, will love doing it. You’ve already discovered an important facet – don’t over dramatise. I would add – don’t read too fast, and practice any parts you find you are stumbling over. I am looking forward to your success.
It’s empowering 😊 loving the self‑acceptance vibe 💛
I won’t wish you luck, then; just escape from your head each time
Don’t forget to have your dogs do cameos with a bark here and there. 🙂
I like that tiny space for internet work!
you’ll be fine LOL
“I need to make this fun, or I will fail.” That is my favorite line of your post. I write for myself and am happy if someone likes. I have many x many drafts in my Dashboard. They are forever being edited and just waiting for the right time. I don’t record much anymore. I look forward to hearing a recording from you.
Absolutely totally achievably methinks – good luck and, taking things slowly and sensibly, what a great extra facet to being ‘you’! I am somewhat the opposite to you – I should think a lot more before I do, never mind ‘overthink’ to which I somehow never get . . . there always seem to be a ‘million things’ waiting to be done. Sometimes, after whatever, I take a step back and say ‘yoicks, that was not very wise’ and then just ‘get on with it’ and cope with the afterflow, whatever 🙂 !
“I don’t need luck, I need to get out of my own head”. Omg this is so me. Lowkey tired of my head. Loved this !