Icarus wondering # 5

I have just seen an article I wrote in a mad 3-4 hour burst of writing energy http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue22/content.htm (thank you Jen, Donna and Sandra eds) I am not quite sure how they come out that way. I mean all those quotations and ideas that always seem to be at hand because I rarely reach further than my own shelves above my desk for books - and if I am honest I fit the article around what I can access at the time. Yikes, should I say that? But I guess all these things are just a way of explaining how I see it. Or is it me - maybe I have a ghostwriter, an inner presence that uses my eyes and typing skills, it is possible. Yesterday I received a review of my book, Here Comes the Bogeyman, which was also written in a huge burst of energy. The reviewer said, 'There is an irreverence to Melrose’s writing style that is consistent throughout the work and may be found in his use of jokes, comments placed inside parentheses and exclamation marks... Melrose’s engaging writing style and useful marriage of scholarship and creativity mean that both the student of children’s literature and the aspiring writer of children’s fiction will be relieved that Melrose did, eventually, find a pencil.'

- oh yay - someone who got it, understood it, that, me, my work, the way I work, oh yay to that - do I need that? Of course I do, you are damn right I do, everyone who writes needs approval. Time for this, I guess, desk-dancing to Salif Keita, there is no better moment than after a good review, they don't come every day (thank goodness, I would hate to be happy all of the time):