Raj!!! I thought you'd taken a hiatus from Steemit to work on your fiction.
Thank you for reading and commenting!!! You are one of the kindest, most considerate, selfless, and generous people ever to grace social media (and the blockchain). And the world of fiction. Keep writing!! As for escaping cities, my sister believes Brazil has the best, at least in a town an hour from Sao Paulo, where she can walk out the door, walk a few blocks to the market with fresh produce, hear live music (bossa nova!)... Brazil is famed for percussionists... but I digress.

Freewriting

is a great way to develop "a wonderfully flowing conversational style," so long as we remember not to overly revise and edit. When we don't freewrite, when we pause in search of the right word, we tend to lose that conversational flow and start writing stilted stuff. Freewrites usually do need edits, but there's a fine balance to strike between the flow of words and the corral of words to herd into nice sentences and paragraphs.
Great to hear from you, Raj!!!!
p.s. Even if you do go rural, you'll never be a bumpkin.