Writing is the broadband that that connects my network.

Audre Lorde said, famously, "poetry is not a luxury". She meant, I think, that poetry can happen everywhere. It's part of the everyday. It is a labour, a daily practice, a habitus.

That's how I feel about writing in general.

Writing, always and everywhere: grant applications; lectures; emails; scholarly articles, subtle humour or anecdote embedded in them like code. Abstracts; proposals; press releases; book blurbs; recipes, film scripts and transcripts; days and months and years of pages and paragraphs and pages....

And books.