How to Turn Off the Negative Voices in Your Head and Just Write!

Do you get tired of all the hassle, hustle, and struggling to make it work?

Justiss Goode | F😄M
9 min readJun 26, 2021
Author holding book: Shut Up and Write for Medium story about writing on Medium.
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Self awareness is really a tricky S.O.B! Just when you thought you had it all together, and was doing fine with yourself, something or someone comes along and knocks you off your game.

What’s even crazier, is that sometimes that someone who knocks you off your game can be YOU. We writers do have a tendency to get in our own way. That was why one of the first things I ever self-published was the little ebook you see in the image, titled: “Shut Up and Write!”

I’ve had a long hard life, and I’m still on my path of self discovery, but considering all the things I’ve been through in my life, I think I’m finally doing okay.

Writing helps, and I can definitely credit writing on Medium for a lot of my emotional healing. But even though writing stories about my past personal experiences are therapeutic, and starting to be enjoyable, other things keep trying to get in the damn way!

For example:

I started writing on Medium on May 1, 2021 (my birthday :) and in that time, I’ve published 118 stories. I started 4 publications and was thinking of starting a 5th, but I’m not getting the…

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Justiss Goode | F😄M

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