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Prompt: fear

Prompt: fear

not memoir, but narrative

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Dec 02, 2020
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Prompt: fear
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Write about the last time you did something that scared the crap out of you. This could mean opening an intimidating envelope from the IRS, sending an email you dreaded writing, getting a spider out of your house, confronting someone, getting a shot, whatever. It doesn’t have to be the biggest thing that ever scared you, just the most recent one.

If you …

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