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  Unpublished writer (so far)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?
  General Fiction
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Sophisticated
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  No specific favourite
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Just a selection at random: Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir; Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose; Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song; Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World; Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind; and 100s more.
  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?
  Some self-editing
  
  Your ultimate writing ambition?
  To write the 7 books so far planned; and hope one at least will be good enough to get published.
  Your worst habit?
  Thinking a long time, so writing slowly.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  It is a tough game, but everyone does their best
  
  Where do you write?
  In the lounge, or garden (summer nights)
  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?
  Have two cats (Gombik & Misko); live & work in Maastricht (NL); lived & have worked in Central and Eastern Europe, the inspiration for stories; have written many academic articles, but creative writing is quite different.