The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Published author
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  Fiction for children
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  None
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Alan Garner
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  The Lord of the Rings The Owl Service One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Arctic Dreams (by Barry Lopez) The White Deer (by James Thurber) Moominland Midwinter A Small Pinch of Weather (and any other Joan Aiken short story collections)
  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 still be doing this when I'm 70, and love it, and be considered successful at it, and still be improving my writing, and get letters from children who love my books.
  Your worst habit?
  Chewing the bits of skin around my nails.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  It is a tough game, but everyone does their best
  
  Where do you write?
  Cafes, home, on my knee on long-distance drives
  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 the only person in my street who is not an undergraduate.