Beverley Harvey, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books

Step Away From Your Comfort Zone

Beverley Harvey — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 05:40:16 +0000

By Beverley Harvey For the last month, my writing has stalled. Spectacularly. It’s not time, opportunity or commitment that I lack, it’s motivation and self-belief. Like myriad writers, I am prone to introspection, anxiety and low self-esteem. No sympathy required here; I count myself lucky that I manage these personality traits – and that they […]

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Slaying The Sequel

Beverley Harvey — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 07:00:47 +0000

My debut novel, Seeking Eden, gushed into the world like an overdue baby, its gestation barely two and a half years from writing the first line to publication. Words flew from the keys, tumbling over themselves in my haste to tell the story of a group of above-averagely dysfunctional misfits living in a suburban English […]

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Embrace Criticism, But Be True To Yourself

Beverley Harvey — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:05:01 +0000

From our very first creative class, writers are conditioned to embrace honest – sometimes brutal – feedback, as a means of refining our art and making us into better authors. That said, it is human nature to feel cut to the bone when somebody lambasts our metaphorical baby – usually the result of months (or […]

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