Use Your Fears to Be a Better Writer

Willow Loveday Little
The Writing Cooperative
7 min readApr 4, 2019

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Bogeyman or inspired writer? Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
Bram Stoker, Dracula

Some people can walk through fire with the strength of their minds. It’s a sort of willpower — a connection to reality that forces out fear and quells the anxieties of the body. They walk through fire…

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A Canadian writer of poetry and prose. Author of (Vice) Viscera. Crazy for creative process. McGill alumna. Big on demystifying the play-by-play. @willowloveday