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Excerpt
She's defiant, saying he can keep his house, his land, his soft bed and fine linen sheets; she'd rather lie on the cold, hard ground beside her lover. She sounds blithe, but from the start Maddy suspected what only the rarer versions of the ballad go on to tell: that from then on the runaway lovers in the glen sleep together in the cold ground, never on it.
From Gypsy Davey, the novel currently under a slash and burn notice.
Bio
I am Canadian by birth and inclination, but currently live in Seattle. I've published a lot of poems (including three books and a CD) and a couple of short stories, but have novelistic ambitions that I am using the Write-a-thon to help move forward. I attended Clarion West in 1996 and am currently one of the organization's two workshop administrators. This means I have extra challenges during the write-a-thon, but also some extra inspiration.
Publications
I have a publication list here, which has links to my online work. I also have a story I put up online to celebrate International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, "Ars Poetica," which is my second published story and also my fourth-week story from my Clarion West workshop.
Writing Description
A reviewer made me blush about my last collection of poems, saying, "I love how intensely she leads us into greater and greater complexities, history and mythology and the most secretive parts of the heart all colliding in a grand burst of energy...the page lighting up like a meteor shower." Damn, I really want to live up to that in my poetry and now in my novels. Daunting, no? I'm not there yet, but I dream of it.
Goals
My goal for the Write-a-thon is, come hell or high water (please, no) or Clarion West parties, to *unplug myself from the Internet* and write for at least one hour each day. I am thinking up some kind of escalating scale should I miss a day (four hours for each hour I miss, perhaps?). A modest goal, but mine own.
I would love, love, love to have everyone who looks at this page either sign up for the write-a-thon themselves or to pledge me at least $6 (that's $1 for each week of the write-a-thon), and for those who can afford more to pledge more (more writing, more money!).
Website
Website: http://www.sff.net/people/neile
Journal: http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines
Livejournal (much overlap with my other journal): http://neile.livejournal.com
