Richard Watt - author
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Richard Watt is an award-winning (see below) writer of fiction and non-fiction. He has been regularly published in the Prince George Citizen newspaper, and is currently working on a number of other writing projects, some of them web-based, others intended for print.
A fuller biography (although still a potted one) may be seen here.
award-winning?
Well, yes - up to a point. When he lived in the south of England, Richard was an inveterate Prom-goer. In 2002, the BBC Proms website ran a weekly review competition, which Richard entered and won with an effusive review of a Shostakovich symphony. The fact that other people liked his writing came as a mild but pleasant surprise, and has in some ways led to this site, and all that implies.
newspaper columnist
In 2006, Richard and his family emigrated from southern England to the Northern Interior of British Columbia. He hit upon the idea of writing regular email letters to their friends back home, and offered these to the local newspaper. They were enthusiastically received, and have caused Richard to be stopped in the street at regular intervals ever since, a fact which greatly pleases him.
fiction writer
Richard has started many fiction projects over the years, and has even finished some of them. The current fiction project is a novel entitled Going Back, which is in the process of being converted from first draft to second draft, and is pretty much taking all of Richard's writing time at the moment.
non-fiction writer
Richard knows a lot of useless information. Much of this is regularly written down and pressed on the unwary. At present, he is working on a never-ending survey of classical music, tentatively entitled Classical Music for the Easily Frightened which will evolve from its current status as a number of rambling posts on an internet messageboard to a website/blog amalgam, in the hope of securing a wider audience.
blogger
Along with everyone else in the world, Richard is a blogger. Some of these blogs serve a practical purpose - one is the home of the 'Dear Friends' letters, for example - others are just a repository for ramblings.
web designer
Well, not really, but this entire website is entirely his own work, and there are some other small examples of his web prowess online (and his former employer may well have some knocking around, too).