The history of writing is a series of big and little revolutions. To write, one needs both something to write on and something to write with. Writing evolved with technologies like papyrus and paper, moveable type and the mass production of books and newspapers - as well as with fortune cookies and street signs. In the second episode, viewers learn what, why and how writers write - using clay, stone, papyrus, paper, stylus, quill pen, the Gutenberg press, the typewriter, stenotype, linotype, the laptop and other methods. Writers living and dead are discussed - from Homer and Melville to Elmore Leonard, Quincy Troupe and Margaret Atwood. The program explains the difference between prose and poetry, laws and epics, and grammar and punctuation. Meanwhile, the episode reveals, everyone can use an editor - except a genius like Robert Frost.