myth

Just finished reading Karen Armstrong's A History of Myth which covers myth making from primitive times up to the present day. She suggests that nowadays we are dominated by logos- rationality and that novelists and creative artists are the ones left to ritualise and enact out myths. I actively drew on myth to write Vixen and am still trying to make my own myths with Pearl. Somehow Vixen reached something almost spiritual in me and seemed to touch other people as well. I don't know how to recapture that (if I did I wouldn't have so much trouble getting published again!) But I am having a short piece "yolk" published in the next issue of HEAT- my first real publication for 5 years.