It has been raining off and on today, and sometimes hard. Before the rains hit, I did some garden work for a friend of mine. I had planted that garden months ago, so that she and I can eat our own homegrown produce. I'm leery of industrial farming, and the toxic sprays, and genetically modified seed, that are used. More on that issue later.
One can daydream book and movie characters, scenes and even the visuals while doing things such gardening, jogging and surfing. It's a form of passive writing. Actually, you are writing, for real, when you do something other than manning a keyboard - while still dreaming up the story. So if you are a writer, give yourself credit for those hours spent doing an activity and daydreaming.
The produce I grow, which does not come from an industrial corporate run farm, gives me much thought on Prince Stephan and his environment.
Prince Stephan grew up on a vast estate, with it's forests and farmland. He faces a land grab by a centralized global regime, one that only allows for collective and industrial farming.
The reason for this is because the world regime seeks to control it's people. One good way, is through the control of food. If you manage to take away the true nutrition of food, you can weaken a people. Weak and passive people are less apt to rebel and are easier to control.
And so Prince Stephan faces this controlling regime, for he owns land that produces food, and it had not yet fallen under industrial farming. There are no genetically altered crops, or toxic sprays on his estate. His crops produce real nutrition, that which can strengthen a population.
So crops and land are big elements is my story, The Diablo Diaries.
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