Richard Watt

Richard Watt was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1962. He has a degree in Linguistics from Edinburgh University, and has spent much of his working life in sales and IT. Richard's writing career took off when he became a regular contributor to the Prince George Citizen newspaper with his Dear Friends columns, written during the process of moving to th... e northern BC city in 2006. Since moving to Canada, Richard has had flash fiction accepted by 365 Tomorrows, and published his first full-length novel, Going Back, in June 2013. Richard is also a qualified soccer coach, and has spent a considerable amount of time squinting into a low sun, shouting at teenagers. Readers of the Dear Friends letters will know that Richard has been married to Zo since 1986. They have two sons and a large elderly cat. The 'Getting To Back' blog: 'Getting To Back' was a series of blog posts related to the process of completing and publishing 'Going Back'. It has now been incorporated into Richard's general blog. This is the description of 'Getting To Back' as it stood when the book was published in 2013: This blog is designed as a kind of portable writer's desk - I'm working (slowly) on a novel tentatively entitled Going Back, and I wanted a place where I can keep records, potentially post useful links and so on when I'm not at my desk, and generally meander on about random elements while I'm supposed to be working. Once upon a time, I went to Germany on a bus . Nothing particularly out of the ordinary happened (aside from the things you imagine happened), but what if it had? What if, during this trip, some of us had our lives changed permanently or temporarily; what if there were still repercussions 25 years later? What if someone's life wasn't what he thought it was? What if the lives of those he met were darker and more complex than he could have imagined at the time? What if he had suppressed large parts of what happened and accidentally found them trying to find out who he had been? What if he met the one person who could unlock his ...Read More