On July 1, I had the honour to lead the singing of “O Canada” at the Lieutenant Governor’s Garden Party at Government House in celebration of Canada Day. And here’s a video! Here I am …
My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, already a finalist for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards and finalist for a 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division, has just been …
Had a great time being part of the cast of Regina Lyric Musical Theatre‘s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I played Fogg (the insane asylum keeper) and also sang in …
My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, a nominee for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards, is also a finalist for the 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division. This is …
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
Previous
Next
Writing Diary: September 22, 2004
Did a bunch of Web site work today, adding all my old arts columns to the site and making sure they all had Google Ads on them (because you know what? I’m actually making money with those things! Not a lot, but enough to cover lattes…)
Then this afternoon I worked on Excalibur Reforged for a bit at Second Cup, mostly figuring out some background I need for the whole series I hadn’t really thought through. Now I’ll need to work bits of that background into the story as I proceed through this edit of it.
Then I forged some memos about Bush’s National Guard service to send to the CBC.
Just kidding.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2004/09/writing-diary-september-22-2004/
