by George Layton | Apr 12, 2021 | Life in Laytonia
Welcome to your weekly GL musing – whoops, what am I saying? We’ve entered the new era, haven’t we? ‘Life in Laytonia’ is now appearing once a fortnight. Goodness, those 2 weeks have flown by. Maybe you’ve been missing me? I hope...
by George Layton | Mar 29, 2021 | Life in Laytonia
Welcome to the first anniversary of my weekly ‘Life in Laytonia’ posts. Writing these weekly rants, reflections, observations, columns, blogs, call them what you like, has been one of the few good things – correction – probably for me the only good thing...
by George Layton | Mar 15, 2021 | Life in Laytonia
I may be entering my 60th year in The Profession– for some reason the acting trade has always been referred to as ‘The Profession’ implying it is above all other professions (including the oldest one). Why actors regard their professional calling superior to all...
by George Layton | Mar 1, 2021 | Life in Laytonia
As a writer, the question I get asked more than any other is: ‘What do you find most difficult when it comes to writing?’ I know that I have banged on (to a boring degree) about procrastination. I have prattled on about searching for any ‘legitimate’ excuse to avoid...
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...
