For everyone:
Read aphorism #367 from The Gay Science:
"The first distinction to be made regarding works of art --- All thought, poetry, painting, composition, even building and sculptures, belong either to monological art or to art before witnesses. In the second class we must include even the apparently monological art that involves faith in God, the whole lyricism of prayer. For the pious there is as yet no solitude; this invention was made only by us, the godless. I do not know of any more profound difference in the whole orientation of an artist than this, whether he looks at his work in progress (at "himself") from the point of view of the witness, or whether he "has forgotten the world," which is the essential feature of all monological art; it is based on forgetting, it is the music of forgetting.
The question:
What is closer to Nietzsche's own writing practice, monological art or art before witnesses? What is most characteristic of your own ideal of writing? Why?
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