My Creative Writing teacher gave us two prompts, one of which I thought was exceedingly dumb and one of which was this: What are your fears? Why? List them, write about them, etc. to come up with a creative nonfiction piece.
So, while we listened to a depressing edition of This American Life about communication, where it works and fails, I thought about what I'm afraid of, but was unable to put my finger on anything specific.
So, I asked myself: What are other people afraid of anyway? And thought that maybe hearing others' fears would give me insight to my own or a broader topic to write about, such as common fears or how people approach fe