The pandemic has given a big shove to all forms of digital communication. Video-conferencing platforms have become verbs. A workplace dominated by time on screens may seem bound to favour newer, faster and more visual ways of transmitting information. But an old form of communication writing is also flourishing. The strengths of the written word have not been diminished by the pandemic era. In some ways they are ideally suited to it. Is writing now becoming a global opportunity for everyone with an Internet access ?