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  Unpublished writer (so far)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?
  Comedy
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Carl Hiaasen, J R Tolkien, R A Salvatore, Margaret Atwood, Philip Pulman, Agatha Christie
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Sick Puppy - Carl Hiaasen Lord of the Rings - J R Tolkien Legend of Drizzt - R A Salvatore The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Poirot - Agatha Christie
  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 become published.
  Your worst habit?
  A tendency to allow the story to create the ideas, rather than the ideas to create the story; owing to a dislike for planning and organisation.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  It is a tough game, but everyone does their best
  
  Where do you write?
  At home, often in bed.
  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 have recently moved to Manchester from Leeds to be closer to my beloved, dreary job, absolutely not a career, in IT, fixing tills for a well known supermarket chain.