The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Unpublished writer (so far)
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  Sci-fi
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Thriller
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Steven Erikson
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Anything by Steven Erikson, Dan Simmons, Iain M. Banks, Richard Morgan, Chine Mieville.
  What are your working habits when you write?
  Disciplined
  
  Are you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?
  Prefer to let rip and edit afterwards
  
  Your ultimate writing ambition?
  Hugo Award. Has to be. In the short term, being able to quit the day job.
  Your worst habit?
  Not following through on ideas! Even getting as far as a skeleton outline and then just not writing the bloody thing.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  At home, at my desk. Or at the dining table. Or on the couch.
  What else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?
  I wrote a novel, so you can too!