by George Layton | Feb 22, 2021 | Life in Laytonia
In 1960, in my first term at drama school, I wrote a short story. Probably in my bedsit during a lonely weekend in the big city, I don’t recall. Short story shorter, I sold it to the BBC’s ‘Morning Story’ getting myself an acting job at the same time. Written an...
by George Layton | Feb 15, 2021 | Life in Laytonia
Writing a regular column/blog/stream of consciousness, call it what you like, is very different to the kind of writing I did in a career that I “enjoyed” for many years The use of parentheses? Because writing for me was a reasonably successful second career that I had...
by George Layton | Feb 8, 2021 | Life in Laytonia
This week, I thought I would hand out a few deserving bouquets, a refreshing alternative to my customary justified – in my opinion – moans, groans and ill-tempered persona. Don’t, however, get too comfortable. I shall also be handing out some...
by George Layton | Feb 1, 2021 | Life in Laytonia
It’s curious, but when I see words on the page or on the computer screen or written anywhere, to me they look like what they mean. Take the word ‘look’ that I have just written. The double OO. Two eyes, looking. The word ‘curious’ has a curious look about...
