Rebecca Delphine

Do you fear full-stops? Do you feel the pressure to substitute each and every full-stop in your writing for something of more substance, more prowess, more depth? Are your stories filled with hyphens, colons and […]

We usually find that, if we remember performing well in the subject of English at school, we could not grasp Mathematics, and vice-versa. People generally fall into one camp or the other, and it is somewhat […]

“I’m afraid this isn’t done on a first-come-first-serve basis,” he repeats, slow and loud this time.

Particles of his sprayed spittle make it through the cluster of holes in the see-through plastic that separat […]

The characters in stories have a tool at their disposal that can immediately help define or amplify a certain feeling or atmosphere needed in a scene. This tool is characters within stories quoting literature. […]

The Ballroom, a story of forbidden love set inside the confines of an early 20th century asylum, is a story told in third-person through three character perspectives that pleasingly rotate. The opening perspective […]

Imagine a beach on a hot Summer’s day. People are scattered across the sand and flitting around in the sea. Now imagine that every character that appears in your novel, in any shape or form, is in that scene. Y […]

This fast moving young adult novel has thrown a multitude of ingredients together to create, for me, a recipe that produces the epitome of my perfect ‘guilty pleasure’ read: rich and vibrant imagery, a fantasy set […]

I’m sure you’ve heard that no-one really says what they mean, because the words we use when we speak and how we choose to deliver those words are not spoken in isolation, but heavily influenced by everything els […]

I’m always searching for ways to allow the dialogue in my writing to flow more naturally. We all have our weaknesses as writers, and mine definitely happens as soon as my characters open their mouths. My natural i […]

You’re writing a story in first person and you stumble onto a section where nothing much happens. You can’t help it; you want your story to be realistic, and in real life we have plenty of dull moments.

T […]

You can’t write your novel.

You might have all the time in the world—laptop wide-open, fingers poised over the keys—but your imagination’s flat-lining because your mind is working against you and now you’re […]

When I started this book, I had presumed things were normal. I had read and watched so many end-of-the-world stories that I was waiting for ‘the event.’ But, to my pleasant surprise, this book doesn’t play to th […]