Listening to children's experiences of writing during the first lockdown in spring 2020, it became clear that for many it had been a time of increased creativity, with children writing everything from songs and stories to scripts, and some even beginning their own novels. Another prominent theme in the research last summer was that having more time to write freely had increased children's enjoyment of writing. This report builds on those findings by highlighting how children and young people felt about writing in early 2021, a period that coincided with the third national lockdown in the UK. This report first presents findings about children and young people's writing in 2021. It then outlines their writing engagement during the first lockdown in spring 2020 and on their return to school in autumn 2020. To capture the experiences and opinions of children and young people during lockdown, an online survey also contained numerous open-text questions, which have been themed and analysed to help contextualise findings in this report.