The Word Cloud

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• Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Dostoyevsky, Chekov, Carver, Irvine Welsh, Michel Houellebecq, Martin Amis, Brett Easton Ellis, Herman Hesse, James Hogg, George Orwell, Ian Mcewan...
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Crime and Punishment. American Psycho. Down and Out in London and Paris. Trainspotting. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love(Collection of Shorts) Atomised. Atonement.
  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?
  Published to critical acclaim. Write the great American novel- once I've nailed the accent! To constantly improve and keep writing.
  Your worst habit?
  Easily sidetracked. I will write one draft of a whole novel then move onto something else without proper edit, review etc. Also prone to have too many projects on the go at once-combination of self doubt re the quality of completed work, fear of losing m
  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'm into extreme sports; snowboarding, surfing and want to kite surf.