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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...
veritylaughton
Jul 18, 20222 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
Apr 28, 20221 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
Dec 28, 20213 min read
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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:...
veritylaughton
Oct 14, 20212 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
Jul 2, 20213 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
Jun 2, 20211 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
May 4, 20212 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
Mar 24, 20212 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
Feb 17, 20216 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
Jan 11, 20212 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
Nov 21, 20201 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
Oct 17, 20204 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
Sep 23, 20202 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
Jun 25, 20206 min read
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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...
veritylaughton
May 13, 20204 min read
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AFTER THE MAELSTROM
Well, so much for regular blog entries. My last entry was approximately four months ago. I’m calling it a maelstrom in the header above...
veritylaughton
Apr 16, 20202 min read
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News (though not Views right now...)
I have recently been awarded an internship loosely related to the work I have been doing for my doctorate, as in a four-month (paid! how...
veritylaughton
Nov 22, 20191 min read
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Managing Mondays...
The other (Monday) morning, I was footling around, post-domestic tasks and pre a medical appointment – anything to avoid a blank page...
veritylaughton
Oct 16, 20193 min read
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Looking forwards, looking back...
I have now been working as a playwright/writer for long enough to be able to trace some ongoing preoccupations in my work and thought. At...
veritylaughton
Sep 19, 20197 min read
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