The Word Cloud

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• Are you a ...?
  Unpublished writer (so far)
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  General fiction
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Historical fiction
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  william goldman, jean christophe grangé, patrick obrian, dickens|
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  William Goldamn - Control. Jean Christophe Grangé - The Crimson Rivers. Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye. Charles McCarry - The Last Supper. Caesar - The Conquest Of Gaul. Robert Graves - I Claudius. Stephen Pressfield - Gates Of Fire.
  What are your working habits when you write?
  Procastinatory
  
  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?
  My ultimate ambition is to write novels set in Roman times. As i see it there remains a tremendous amount of fascinating historical incident as yet untouched by the recognised giants in this field
  Your worst habit?
  Allowing myself weekends off
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  in the living room and occasionally in bed with the laptop
  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 have no cats but my girlfriend recently introduced a couple of goldfish to our habitat. support the arsenal since liam brady missed that pen in the 1980 cup winners cup final. like my heavy metal/rock