Booker Prize nominated author Wyl Menmuir stages outdoor writing workshop as part of the Be Newquay Festival

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00:00We'll calm down any of you who have read Wallace's book through my book, you'll know this.

00:06When we have more safety and blue spaces, our minds relax more than when we're in the town or the city, when we feel more influenced.

00:18And I definitely, if I want to write about anything, I will.

00:23If I want a better view of it, I will quite often put it somewhere where I've got a clear view of the horizon.

00:31And I don't know why, I don't know whether it's because of that.

00:35The theory is that our ancestors far, far, far back wouldn't have been able to see it.