Taking the Craft Seriously

An Excellent Tip on Writing from a Thinker I Loathe

I stumbled onto a genuinely helpful insight about writing, and it came from the thinker I enjoy the least, Friedrich Nietzsche.

I have been reading my way through his corpus, and I find myself resisting him almost the entire time. I recoil at the tone, the contempt, and the sharp, deliberate blows aimed at Christians in particular. I disagree with him at…