Travel

A Week in the Hills

Notes from a slow, nourishing week in the countryside.

Rolling green hills and wildflower meadows under a soft evening sky

I went to the hills with a plan to write every morning. Instead I walked, slept early and watched the light move across the fields.

By the end of the week I had written very little, and understood my next chapter far better than before.

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