by Judith Heaney | Oct 8, 2025 | 365 Reasons
Because we recently finished reading Remarkably Bright Creatures and have been reading several of William Shakespeare’s plays, I decided to share a few of my not-quite-polished short stories with my girls. Unlike the novels I’ve worked on and that my 17 year old has...
by Judith Heaney | Jun 14, 2025 | 365 Reasons
As a writer, one of the pieces of advice that gets bandied about when considering what to write is write what you know, but the bigger idea that plays in my mind and that I’ve read and heard quite as often is to write the book you want to read. Isn’t that fantastic...
by Judith Heaney | May 30, 2025 | 365 Reasons
Because of my husband’s church-related job—he serves as the Director of Traditional Music at a local church near where we live—he gets Fridays and Saturdays off as his weekend, and because of this, I have come to love Thursday afternoons as the lead-in to our weekend....
by Judith Heaney | May 27, 2025 | 365 Reasons
In recent weeks I have been trying to map out my life. Again. This isn’t the first time I’ve gone through this exercise and I know it won’t be the last. Even so, I am trying to work out what direction to take with my writing and, because the two are so intertwined,...
