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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Are we Entertained by Pain? 2 months, 1 week ago
“It’s not real – it’s just a story.”
Words so often spoken when the events on our television screens become too much for some of us to take, and we look away or cover our eyes, while others seemingly delight i […]
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Dialogue Tags 4 months, 1 week ago
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 […]
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Rebecca Delphine commented on the post, Netflix's Birthday 4 months, 3 weeks ago
This is gorgeous.
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Fiction Writers Need to Take Photographs 6 months, 1 week ago
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 […]
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Shiny Cars 6 months, 2 weeks ago
“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 […]
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Rebecca Delphine commented on the post, Get On With It 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Thank you for this – so motivational and honest. And very, very true. I shall not think about doing things for longer than five seconds. I shall get shit done.
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Characters Quoting Literature 8 months, 1 week ago
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. […]
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, The Ballroom by Anna Hope 8 months, 3 weeks ago
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 […]
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Rebecca Delphine commented on the post, The Beach 9 months ago
Intriguing and beautiful. I really want to know more.
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Rebecca Delphine commented on the post, The Crimson Filter 9 months ago
Wow. What a beautiful poem to read again and again. And again.
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Rebecca Delphine commented on the post, Hush 10 months, 1 week ago
Beautiful.
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Plot-Influencing Secondary Characters 10 months, 1 week ago
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 […]
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Rebecca Delphine commented on the post, White Asparagus 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Love this story. I desperately want to know more about the characters.
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Rebecca Delphine commented on the post, Stop Apologising 11 months ago
When I’m asked what I write, I get all washed over with something close to shame when replying ‘young adult literature’ – But it’s not shameful, or any less important than other genres and age brackets, and I need […]
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Caraval by Stephanie Garber 11 months, 1 week ago
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 […]
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Why Characters Should Manipulate Conversations 1 year ago
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 […]
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Experimenting to Enhance Dialogue 1 year, 3 months ago
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 […]
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Skipping Time 1 year, 3 months ago
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 […]
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Stop Fighting Writers’ Block 1 year, 5 months ago
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 […]
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, On the Beach by Nevil Shute 1 year, 6 months ago
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 […]
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