in praise of pointless texting

why wasting time messaging friends is actually good practice for writers

My friend Tom sent me a thank you text for a dinner party recently. Because he’s Tom, he wrote it in the style of Henry James.

Chapter XXIV

It will not surprise the more assiduous of readers that Tom procrastinated for some days until, notwithstanding a residual reticence to take a step that hitherto he had considered audacious, finally wrote Miss McLare…