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Equally, if on any given day, I'm struggling or my anxiety is sparking or I'm just feeling grey and depressed and overwhelmed for whatever reason, then 10 or 20 minutes of running will not fix it, but it will make it better. You mentioned that while you are loving running, you aren't racing at the moment at all? Carse writes the narrator as being uncomfortable, inexperienced and unknowledgable about the wilds of the Highlands. Its either that, which I prefer to believe, or Carse himself is. To the narrator, the mountains are threatening rather than alluring. He mistakenly states that he is in a place no mountaineers tred, as there are no such places. This book is advertised as “a missing person mystery like no other.” No. No, it’s not. Stop lying. READBAIT!!! 😡 Chris Carse Wilson running in Glen Coe Frame Focus Capture Photography And for you, it gives you that crucial space?
Some of the most familiar names included in the extensive, varied line-up of writers at Aye Write this year are Alistair Campbell, Ruby Wax, Val McDermid, Liz Lochhead, Janey Godley, Cameron McNeish, Josie Long in conversation with Frankie Boyle, Robin Ince, Aasmah Mir, Chris Brookmyre, Darren McGarvey, Polly Toynbee, and Sally Magnusson. What they find is an empty cottage, with the exception of thousands of scattered, cryptic notes left by the father. One of them says: “I am not gone. Mum is not gone. We are here. We are hidden.” 😱My understanding of it is that it is about a son experiencing guilt followed closely by depression, after losing his parents, because he realises that he never really knew them. In particular his father, who is senses is geographically close by, yet more distant than ever. And now I use running very deliberately to manage anxiety. So for instance, at the moment I’m doing book events, which has been wonderful and very exciting. But one thing that I knew before I was doing that all this stuff is I have to run in the morning, before I go, as a way of managing my anxiety in advance. Absolutely, and I think also without really realising it until I was older. The times of my life when I’m running, I'm happier and healthier, suffer fewer mental health problems. I'm more in control of everything. Life is just better, full stop. And at times where I'm not running because of illness or injury or just a moment where I've sort of fallen out of love with it, things are worse, you know, on a very simple basic level. Running makes every day better. It makes your life better. And much easier to control. Dark and atmospheric, Fray is chilling and very original. I couldn't put it down.' - Simon McCleave
Yes, my parents were both runners, they got into it because of the Great North Run, and I sort of followed on. I ran as a kid, joined a club, and did cross country and athletics through my teenage years. I was an 800m runner and I loved it. It’s so fascinating because it’s almost impossible to get it right. I always think an 800m race feels like a great idea until about 500m, then you are hanging on for dear life. I was a decent club runner but nothing out of the ordinary, but I loved it and with a few breaks I’ve continued ever since. That combination of the wild, threatening weather and this abandoned building gave me the way into telling a story that is open and honest about mental health.”I'd been wrestling with how to honestly write about mental health and that moment of feeling so helpless and vulnerable against the landscape, against the weather – that was the spark. I knew this was my setting. This intensity that I'm feeling in this moment of panic trying to get down off the side of the mountain safely, is the same experience that I want a reader to have reading the book. Of course they are safe and dry and experiencing it at home, but I want them to have a sense of how it feels to be out on a run in that sort of situation – and sort of bring them along with that.
We also have Wee Write to look forward to this summer. It takes place from 3 to 9 June, so watch out for full details of a host of fun family events and activities.” The papers are haphazard and don’t make a great deal of sense. The narrator’s father talks of searching for his wife, but also mentions the Devil. He records times and weather conditions precisely, then describes experiments whose purpose is unclear. One of his hand-drawn maps has the word ‘hotel’ marked prominently, but there doesn’t seem to be a hotel nearby. Perhaps the father has made some sort of breakthrough, but if so, its nature is inscrutable.Chris Carse Wilson began writing Fray in 2016 and kept it secret from everyone including his wife Elaine, 42, until it was finished. HarperNorth has pre-empted the “spine-tingling” début novel by Chris Carse Wilson, communications manager at V&A Dundee. So I guess running is for you both a tool for managing mental health but, in a way, it’s also a metaphor for it?
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