Writing For The Sake Of Writing

During a conversation inspired by an advert on the telly, one which probably isn't supposed to inspire the types of long-winded (and often off topic) conversations we tend to have, Matthew asked me what I thought my 'thing' was. 'I don't know' was my initial response, stumped by the certainty with which he knew what his 'thing' was. 'Well your thing is writing isn't it?' he replied. Oh yes, writing . The thing is, the longest thing I've written over the past few months is probably a shopping list (which I do write out twice to be fair, once in the order that I think of things, then re-written in the order I'll come to things in the supermarket,...