Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images The ideal writing residency, I think, would last an entire lifetime, not be confined to any specific location, and leave you at leisure to write as much or as little as you liked. I’m recently back from a month-long writing residency in Hong Kong, during which I wrote nothing at all. Not a jot. I considered writing out there, moving forward with my next book, but after a few days I dropped the idea. Then I thought I might write about Hong Kong, my first visit to the region, the writing residency itself. I started taking notes… but soon gave up on even that. There was too much to see, to do, to eat – writing felt like a waste of time. Taking notes would have gotten in the way of all the things I took no notes about. I didn’t even read in Hong Ko