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 DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Probiotics receive a lot of credit for keeping the human body healthy and in good working order. But what about probiotics for the professional writer, those good-for-you additives that benefit your story? This isn’t a pill, a liquid, or a gel to keep your reader happy.…

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…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Story ideas can be like fireworks. They soar and explode in beautiful colors…then their dance fizzles to the ground and we turn our attention to the next one. But story ideas don’t have to fade away. A writer can take those wild moments of inspiration and…