Heather Young, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/heatheryoung/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 07:19:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 The First Page: Inspiration and Perspiration https://booksbywomen.org/the-first-page-inspiration-and-perspiration-by-heather-young/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-first-page-inspiration-and-perspiration-by-heather-young/#comments Tue, 04 Apr 2017 06:25:04 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17972 When I decided to write a novel, I hadn’t written so much as a short story since high school. I took no English classes in college, and I’d never taken a single writing class. But I loved reading, and I’d read thousands of books in my 44 years. I’d also been a lawyer, so I […]

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