LisaKesterDodgson
45 years old
Female
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Italy
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Trying to get my head round this week's homework!Information
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Are you a ...?Published authorWhat genre do you primarily write in?Other non-fictionIf you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?Fiction for childrenAre your reading habits ...?OmnivorousWho is your favourite author(s)?Ken Follet, Dan Brown, Agatha Christie, Cecelia Ahern, Stephen King, John Grisham, Suzanne CollinsAnd your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)The Wind in the Willows The Pillars of the Earth Ps I love youWhat are your working habits when you write?Perfectly balancedAre you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?Prefer to let rip and edit afterwardsYour ultimate writing ambition?I've worked in educational publishing for 10 years and published some textbooks and an English Language Course for Italian primary schools. I would like to move into trade publishing and children's fiction and try to write and publish a picture book.Your worst habit?I'm rather impulsive, far too sensitive and sometimes live in a dream world. I'm easily influenced by other people's opinions and tend not to believe in myself or my own capababilities enough to reach for the stars and go for my dream.Your opinion on the books industry?It is a tough game, but everyone does their bestWhere do you write?I have converted my garage into an 'office' and so there's just about enough room for my desk, chair and bookshelves. I write in bed, on the sofa, at the breakfast bar...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 a 14 year old son, mother and badly behaved kitten living with me near the Adriatic coast in Italy. I love listening to music, watching black and white films on rainy afternoons, walking along the beach in winter and soaking up the sun in summer.
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by Mel 3 months agoHi Lisa, Mel from the course here. Copy and paste your HW from the group wall into the forum- I think that's where everyone else is putting theirs, or it might get lost. See you there!










