I Didn’t Publish a Word About My Divorce for a Year

And It Was the Best Thing I Could Have Done for My Memoir

By Heather Sweeney

My writing career began with a blog. At the time, I was a military spouse and stay-at-home mom in need of a hobby while the Navy sent my then-husband all over the world. I was still blogging when, a couple years later, I found myself facing divorce, wondering if I should turn my blog about military life into a divorce blog. But now, over a decade later with a divorce memoir about to be published, I realize that...