The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Unpublished writer (so far)
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  General fiction
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Historical fiction
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Sophisticated
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Marcus Zusak, Marina Lewckya, Margaret Atwood, Peter Goldsworthy, Flannery O'Connor
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  The Book Thief; A short history of tractors in Ukranian; The Handmaid's Tale; Maestro; To kill a mockingbird
  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 succeed with my current first novel giving me the means to write my second! To be a teller of stories that people want to read.
  Your worst habit?
  Procrastinating and not writing stuff down when the ideas are flowing!! Then forgetting them...
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  Train, plane, kitchen, sitting room....anywhere I can
  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?
  Am English/History teacher by trade; have a great sense of humour and love to laugh most of all! Eat way too much chocolate!