I like writing as a verb. I like to write: to think and express my thoughts as words on a page or screen.
But I also like writing as a noun. I always have. I like the writing you find in museums, whether it is a handwritten journal, a typewritten letter or a carved inscription on stone.
This love is why I have a weakness for buying pens and notebooks, and why I have two (really, two!) 1930s typewriters.
My fascination with writing holds true even for writing I can’t read because it is not in modern English. I am fascinated by the time-travelling nature of the writing. Someone set down their thoughts 10 or 100 or 1,000 years ago and here it is in front of me.
Will anyone read any of my words in the generations to come? I don’t know. Maybe. The greatest pleasure of being a published in the UK and US is knowing my books sit on shelves in the British Library and Library of Congress and at least would be findable should anyone want to look for them.
