The phrase "a time when writing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period or moment in which writing is significant or relevant.
Example: "There was a time when writing letters was the primary means of communication."
Alternatives: "an era of writing" or "a period of writing".
There may have been a time when writing a song called "Pimp Juice" was an act of provocation, but nowadays, even mainstream listeners are likely to be more amused than repulsed.
Tricycle Theatre, NW6, Mon to 17 Apr Mark Cook There was a time when writing plays for children and teens was considered second best, but these days playwrights such as Phil Porter and Mark Ravenhill are producing some terrific work.
It's my hope that we've arrived at a crossroads, a time when writing a gay character for a series is more like being a gay person in theater, something no one really cares about.
Or else you could have some fun spotting the bits of skewed history and tweaked literature: the real-life poet Alcaeus was indeed Sappho's contemporary; Pittacus did rule Lesbos in around 645-570 BC; Sappho did live at a time when writing was beginning to take over from an oral tradition.
Because much of the terminology of cryptology dates to a time when written messages were the only things being secured, the source information, even if it is an apparently incomprehensible binary stream of 1s and 0s, as in computer output, is referred to as the plaintext.
You can use third-party editors such as UltraEdit to edit your batch file, but for the most part, these are a waste of time when writing simple batch files.
Take your time when writing.
Take your time when writing the poem.
Take your time when writing, to find the right words.
Mr. Allen, the author of "Getting Things Done," does much of his writing on a computer, but there are still times when writing with a fountain pen on a notepad "allows me to get my head in the right place," he said.
There came a time when I wrote just one too many magazine pieces where the editor said, for instance, "Put Speedo into the piece because they paid for the photo shoot".
