by Bethany Jett, @BetJett Welcome to the third and final post in our series 11 Ways to Create a Sense of Place. Be sure to catch Part One and Part Two if you’ve missed them. Without further ado, it’s quite fitting at this time of year that we start with……

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills ’Tis the season of the turkey. If you enjoy eating the Thanksgiving bird, then you love the season. If you’re the turkey, well not so much. You’ve probably spent the past year hatching ways to disguise yourself. For the turkey, I commend his ingenuity. For the…

by Bethany Jett, @BetJett Welcome back to Part Two of our series 11 Ways to Create a Sense of Place. If you missed the opener to this series where we mentioned 1. Food, 2. Dialect, and 3. Conducting Research, be sure to check out Part One here. We’ll continue our eleven…

by Edie Melson @EdieMelson But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control… Galatians 5:22-23 For me, this verse is tough. Some of the things listed are easy. Some…well…not so much. In my travels this fall, I’ve had the opportunity to hear about other the…

by Bethany Jett, @BetJett I'd planned on posting Part 2 in the series of 11 Ways to Create a Sense of Place. However, on my drive home from a meeting tonight, all the similarities between writers and politicians flooded through my mind. It's amazing what goes through my brain when there…

by Bethany Jett, @BetJett I host a weekly online show called Writers Chat and yesterday's topic was how to create setting in our stories. The tips were so great I had to share with our Blue Ridge community. Creating great scenes is not only for fiction writers. Whether you're writing…