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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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Evan Chelsee's avatar

That's such a beautiful image. I will be holding jachère in my mind!

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Shanna's avatar

More gratuitous footnotes please!

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Love Letter for My Friends's avatar

This is incredibly similar to a conversation I had this morning with another friend. It's amazing how complex the process is between realizing something isn't working anymore and then fully reclassifying the thing -- and oh my, how that's further exacerbated when it's something that's been that way for a long time. Congrats! On realizing now is not the novel time, on having the umph to do the reclassifying, and for recognizing that sometimes all you can do is wait.

(On that note, pardon me...just gonna mosey on over to google how wells work....)

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