Is it scary writing knowing that you have a readership? Is that better than not having any readership? Back in the old days, and i had my own answer phone. I would write solidly from nine o'clock at night until about five, six o'clock in the morning. If i tried to do this now, i would fall asleep with my head on my computer,. And i would wake up with 300 pages of the letter m. Your next object is a vintage, as we now call them, answer phone. This was one of the ways that terry used to give you feedback when you were working together on good omens.