The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Writer published in mags, etc
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  Short fiction
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Memoir
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Penelope Lively; Ian Rankin; Georges Simenon; Evelyn Waugh
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Madame Bovary Brideshead Revisited Rebecca Unconditional Surrender L'assomoir Animal Farm A Month in The Country (J. L. Carr)
  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?
  Some self-editing
  
  Your ultimate writing ambition?
  To leave behind a short novel, quite well-received, I am happy with.
  Your worst habit?
  Gloom, I suppose. I mean I am not known for riotous laughter. Craggy rather than crabby however.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  It is a tough game, but everyone does their best
  
  Where do you write?
  Writers' Umbrella Newsletter; St Columba's (Old Parish) Church Stornoway Newsletter; at home.
  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?
  In the kitchen are 4 budgerigars. Like long solitary walks. Eat sardines, cornish pasties, apples, bananas, lettuce, tomatoes, cheesecake, big Cadbury bars. Favourite whisky is TAlISKER. Live alone; attend Church of Scotland services; like Catholics.