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Flo's avatar

I know that when we think of fallow fields we imagine a ploughed and empty field, uniform and brown. But nature doesn’t like empty space and often wild vegetation and flowers will cover the fertile land fairly quickly. Sometimes a farmer will even sow some plants that they won’t harvest but that enrich the soil in nutrients. You might not be cultivating your fiction writing crop but you are cultivating your creativity in other ways that will contribute to the writing project(s) that are slowly getting ready in the soil.

It’s wild doing a google image search for fallow field and then jachère (fallow land in French). Not the same cultural association I guess.

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Shanna's avatar

More gratuitous footnotes please!

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