Writers with Hammers

There’s an old saying that goes something like, “To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

The subtext of this particular idiom is usually that it isn’t a good idea to expect one tool to be able to fix absolutely everything that you want to fix. This is fairly obvious when it comes to physical tools – you can pound a screw in with a hammer, but the result won’t hold nearly as well as it would have if you’d screwed the screw in with a screwdriver; you can break a board into two...