The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Unpublished writer (so far)
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  Literary fiction
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Short fiction
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Other
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Conrad, David Mitchell, Proust , Yourcenar
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  A la recherche.., Under Western Eyes, Memoires d'Hadrien, L'Oeuvre au noir, Essays of Elia, Miss SMila's Feeling for Snow, Dangerous Liaisons
  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?
  to find the right readership keeping pushing past the boundaries
  Your worst habit?
  self doubt
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  living room, planes, airports, trains, boats and hotel rooms (depending)
  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?
  'opinions on the books industry': you don't give fair options! living in a non English speaking country is both a plus and a minus.