Turn down your screen brightness, set a 10-minute timer, and write without stopping or editing. The trick silences your inner critic so you can find your actual voice instead of the one your 7th-grade English teacher installed in your head.
When I'm feeling scared, when I'm feeling writer's block, just turn off the brightness, set a timer for 10 minutes, and just write totally unedited, unfiltered. And, you know, turn off the inner editor. A lot of us, myself included, we have the ghosts of our like 7th grade English teacher who is like mean and nasty and like always telling us all these rules. Like we have that stuck in our head and the internet isn't like that. Like we don't— we could curse, we could use memes, we could use videos. Like turn off that inner editor, the inner English teacher. And just write and have fun. Anybody can be a great writer. Anybody has a voice that is worth sharing. I truly believe that. And the more time you spend writing, the better your, the better and more clear your voice becomes. But the only way to get there is by spending the time writing.
