The Word Cloud

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• Are you a ...?
  Other
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  Fantasy
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Sci-fi
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Orwell
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Lord of the Rings, The Dead Zone, A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, Bleak House, Salambo, The Gulag Archipelago, 1984
  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 get the stuff out of my head - to stop being haunted.
  Your worst habit?
  Depression - paralysis
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  I deeply respect the good folk of publishing
  
  Where do you write?
  Keyboard
  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 love poetry - Betjeman especially. I agree with Orwell about how English should be written, and with Larkin about what art should do.