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What is the point of having set up a blog if you never write in it? Well, it can serve as a ‘next thing’ outlet, and I expect it does....
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veritylaughton
- Nov 1, 2022
- 2 min
5 a.m. Koala and Other News
No, this koala has nothing to do with writing, or theatre, or…anything really, apart from a moment of optimism in a grey old, mean old...
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veritylaughton
- Oct 9, 2022
- 2 min
(Two) Seasons’ Greetings
So happy to say that my adaptation of the wonderful Pip Williams’ best-selling novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words has just been...
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veritylaughton
- Sep 17, 2022
- 1 min
Melanie Jewson Foundation (MJF) Event
A quick shout out for those of you living in or near Geelong who might be interested to support this small not-for-profit based in...
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veritylaughton
- Sep 9, 2022
- 2 min
SEPTEMBER and the hope of spring
I’ve been traveling in Europe since late July, in part for research purposes to do with the soon-to-be-announced (and I’m pretty sure...
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veritylaughton
- Jul 18, 2022
- 2 min
2022 To July, and Counting…
I’ve been locked in a research task for much of the last six months – useless to talk about it as there’s an even money chance it will go...
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veritylaughton
- Apr 28, 2022
- 1 min
A COUPLE OF QUICK ITEMS
Firstly, the imminent launch of the wonderful Griffith Review’s Edition 76, Acts of Reckoning edited by Ashley Hay with contributing...
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veritylaughton
- Dec 28, 2021
- 3 min
Christmas Add-ON
I published a Christmas article in signalhouse edition. With their permission I've included it here: DO’S HEDGEHOG SLICE AND BRANDY...
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veritylaughton
- Oct 14, 2021
- 2 min
October: Notes and Trolls
I know, I know – why have a column called ‘Blog’ if you only write in it occasionally? Well, back like a bad penny. Three things:...
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veritylaughton
- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
Looking back to January
I'm multi-tasking here – pinching the copy from the 7-ON blog site to cover the first six months of this year. I love what I call the...
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veritylaughton
- Jun 2, 2021
- 1 min
Book Launch June 4th Gleebooks, Sydney
For anyone who might be in Sydney on June 4th, my playwrights' group, 7-ON is launching our latest collaboration – a book of chamber...
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veritylaughton
- May 4, 2021
- 2 min
NEWS ITEM!
There’s a lot going on in my world right now but one item at a time…as you’ll see in the press release below, 7-ON Playwrights, the...
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veritylaughton
- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
Consequences...
The big topic this month (March, 2021) is women’s rage. Most women I know are exhausted by it. Most women I know would still keep quiet...
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veritylaughton
- Feb 17, 2021
- 6 min
AND THE BEAT GOES ON…February 2021
This morning we watched through the big window that embraces the century-old gum trees outside our bedroom as the sky almost...
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veritylaughton
- Jan 11, 2021
- 2 min
JANUARY 2021
A few links here, just to get this new year started: Link to the STCSA/ActNowTheatre’s Decameron 2.0 project: my offering, starring...
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veritylaughton
- Nov 21, 2020
- 1 min
NOVEMBER 2020. OH MY.
And it’s hi to the world of Covid-19ing, mystified US election watching, bewildered Brexit bemusement and So It Goes…What to say? Will...
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veritylaughton
- Oct 17, 2020
- 4 min
Blue
I’m writing this from Cape Hart, a place we go to on Kangaroo Island. It’s an isolated spot on the south-east coast of the Island, on the...
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veritylaughton
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
Worlds of Dreams
Any short-term writing during this pandemic feels contingent as you write it. I’ve been working on a YA fantasy novel over a number of...
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veritylaughton
- Jun 25, 2020
- 6 min
HINGE OF THE YEAR
How is corona treating you? Where are you living? What are you doing? As we segue into a possible second wave in some spots, bunker down...
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veritylaughton
- May 13, 2020
- 4 min
COVID, COVID AND CATCHES-22
It’s been a happenstance of timing but during the pandemic, I have been spending most of my time on an isolated share farm in the...
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