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Are your reading habits ...?OmnivorousWho is your favourite author(s)?Sebastian Faulks, Anna Quindlen, Richard Powers, P.D. James, Bill Bryson, Nicholas Evans, Rosie Thomas, Richard North-Patterson,Pat Conroy, Ian McEwanAnd your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)The Power of One, The Time Traveler's Wife, Wuthering Heights, Ex Libris (Anne Fadiman), On Green Dolphin Street, Coming Home, The Fall (Simon Mawer) and twenty more...What are your working habits when you write?ProcastinatoryAre you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?Ten times? Why so little?Your ultimate writing ambition?To establish a new career as a mainstream fiction writer. I have 2 editions of a narrative text (neuropsychology) published and am also writing a trade book on neuropsychology cases; in style a cross between Oliver Sacks and Atul Guwande's books.Your worst habit?Dreaming! Not exercising enough, especially when it's raining.Your opinion on the books industry?It is a tough game, but everyone does their bestWhere do you write?My home officeWhat 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?Live on a remote beach on a beautiful island! Use solar power, and bury our own shit but do have a satellite dish slowish internet connection..
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by Rebecca Holmes 2 years agoSounds amazing - though I suspect our 2 teenagers might not be so keen - too far from friends and shops. I suppose I'd have been the same at their age. Still, once they're off our hands... I could write and husband could potter and go windsurfing.
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by Bobby 2 years agoWelcome to the WordCloud.
I've got a septic tank which takes all our shit ... but it's in my holiday home in Nova Scotia. We visit there every summer - can't wait.
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by Islander 2 years agoHi Val and Rebecca,
Thanks for the welcome! And we actually have a septic tank; we don't really bury it... But we do do compost and grow good veges. Right now it is mid-winter here and we are off to North Queensland in two days; we have a small unit north of Cairns where we will stay for 7 weeks, and then I'm off to Hawaii to the Hawaii Writers' conference and before that for the 6 day intensive Writers' retreat. All very exciting. I should say that last year I took early retirement from my University position (as did my husband) so we could live here full time and I could concentrate on writing, especially fiction... much harder than non-fiction! But more fun too. I have finished my first novel (well I suspect it still needs a lot of work) and am trying to get an agent, or failing that (which seems likely) keep on working on it! In between I write my general readership non-fiction and do conservation things. -
by Rebecca Holmes 2 years agoDefinitely interesting, thogh I'm not sure about burying your own .... Do you compost it?
We keep dreaming of getting away from it all, but at the moment have to make do with living on the edge of a market town. We can see fields if we lean out of the bedroom windows, but can usually hear traffic. Oh well. One day.
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by Val 2 years agoHey, Islander! Wow, your way of life sounds interesting. We cannot hear a road from our house, we run out of water in a dry summer, get snowed in every winter and have to chop wood for we heat our house with wood-burners. I thought that was rural enough, but your way of life sounds fascinating!
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