title: Writing With A Heavy Heart: Using Grief and Loss to Stretch Your Fiction
author:  Denise Jaden 
description: "Jaden's Writing With A Heavy Heart is a must-have for any writer's craft shelf. The combination of clear guidance and practical exercises allow writers to take their manuscripts to a deeper level."<br />- Eileen Cook Author of Unraveling Isobel and The Almost Truth<span></span><br /><br /><span>"</span><span>Writing With A Heavy Heart absolutely nails the grieving process. I love the exercises included, because, to me, they make the whole thing a tangible help in applying it to a work in progress."<br />- Janet Gurtler, author of If I Tell and Who I Kissed</span><br /><br /><span>"Writing With A Heavy Heart has a lot of really good insights on grief and suggestions on how to incorporate them to fiction."<br />- Lee Strauss, author of The Perception Series</span><br /><br /><span>"Jaden's Writing with a Heavy Heart helped me add layers to my characters who experience loss. The tools provided in this piece make it practical in my writing projects."<br />- Cindy Callaghan, author of Just Add Magic and Purses, Palaces and Photographic Proof</span>
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  # A Letter from Kate
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The idea for _No Time to Say Goodbye_ came to me a long time ago, while I was
  living in New York as a mother of young children. Back then, I hadn’t enough
  experience of writing or of life to attempt the story, but ten years later
  (and older), I felt ready to try to write about so many serious things—death
  and grief, war and crime. Weighty issues aside, however, at its heart this
  story is about finding hope amidst the pain and tragedy of life.
  
  
  Someone recently asked me if there was a common theme in my books, and I
  answered that all my stories explore the question “what do you do when the
  worst happens?” The w