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  Unpublished writer (so far)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?
  Fantasy
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Scary
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  David Nicholls, Thomas Hardy, Lionel Shriver, with a bit of Anais Nin
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  "The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy"...(is that cheating?). "We Need to Talk About Kevin". "Adam Bede". "One Day". "Giovanni's Room". "A Witches' Bible". "The Bride of Lammermoor"
  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 be the next Thomas Hardy, obviously
  Your worst habit?
  sustaining writer's block
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  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 moonlight as a raver. Seriously.