What Would You Do if You Weren't Afraid? by Ann Ferguson I have been afraid to write for years. When I was a senior in high school, I had a devastating experience with a research paper.  Through that experience, a belief was created that my writing isn’t acceptable or valuable.  Eventually, that belief became a story. I told myself the story so often that evidence of my weakness became a reality.  My freshman year of college, I took an English placement exam and tested out of English 101, I was placed in a composition class.  That should have bolstered my [...]