I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.