The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Writer published in mags, etc
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  General fiction
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Fantasy
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Pretentious
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Elias Canetti, Stanislaw Lem, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K Dick
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Auto Da Fe (Canetti), Ubik (Dick), Gormenghast (Peake), The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), Eden (Lem), Death on the Installment Plan (Celine), The Trial (Kafka)
  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?
  To finish all of the novels and stories in my head.
  Your worst habit?
  Destroying/deleting my work.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  A conspiracy from start to finish. My work will die with me
  
  Where do you write?
  From surreal to erotic to classic fantasy...
  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 am also a digital artist (2D and 3D), a musician (with some actual royalty-generating releases), massively self-destructive (in a subtle, sneaky way), and a compulsive inventor...