by hagi1,863 words, article
Taming Your Demons. A hybrid of article and fiction on recognising and your inner fears and putting them to use. As the title suggests, this can get quite creepy, so use at your own risk.
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Excerpt
Your demons (your internal fears, darkest fantasies, your deepest yet unrevealed wishes), scary as they might be, can be tamed enough to bring you bread… or at least good stories (or poems, for that matter, but let’s not complicate things). They are the main source of horror stories (obviously), but also the most powerful drive for just about any genre, be it mystery (like “I am deeply afraid of getting lost in unfamiliar country”) or fantasy (“I’m petrified at a mere thought of basilisk’s...