The Word Cloud

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• Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Laurie Lee, Chinua Achebe
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  I walked out one Midsummer Morning/ or Cider With Rosie? Daniel Deronda Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe The Inheritance of Loss: Kiran Desai Lachlan's War: Michael Cannon The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho The Audacity of Hope: Barack Obama
  What are your working habits when you write?
  Perfectly balanced
  
  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?
  Finish the burning trilogy which just has to be written and then write light hearted novels - one a year until I run out of steam + short stories and poems for relaxation.
  Your worst habit?
  Too wordy but working on it. Mixing fact and fiction / confusing memoir and fictional plot Waking up at 3am and writing drivel - which occasionally gets into a manuscript Too scared to submit work
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  anywhere comfortable where I can be as messy as I like without disturbing anyone
  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?
  A self-confessed Swanwick Writers' Summer School addict have a website that not many people look at - but can't include it here as it advertises a novel Reading wannabe a writer? by jane wenham-jones right now - and loving it!