Fear writes the worst-case script. Faith reminds you who’s directing.

Fear is a writer with one genre. It produces a full-length version of the worst outcome, with dialogue, and it does its best work at night when nothing can be checked. The script is detailed, which is exactly why it feels credible. Faith does not argue the plot line by line, it remembers who is actually running the production.

When the worst-case version starts playing, call it a draft rather than a forecast. Write the fear down in one sentence and see how thin it reads in daylight. Then do the next real thing in front of you, which no script ever accounts for.