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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Shiny Cars 1 day, 22 hours 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 1 month 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 1 month, 3 weeks 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 2 months, 1 week 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 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Intriguing and beautiful. I really want to know more.
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Rebecca Delphine commented on the post, The Crimson Filter 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Wow. What a beautiful poem to read again and again. And again.
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Rebecca Delphine commented on the post, Hush 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Beautiful.
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, Plot-Influencing Secondary Characters 3 months, 3 weeks 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 4 months 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 4 months, 3 weeks 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 4 months, 4 weeks 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 6 months 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 8 months, 3 weeks 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 9 months, 2 weeks 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 10 months, 3 weeks 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 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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Rebecca Delphine commented on the post, Beetroot Chutney 1 year, 1 month ago
What a gem of a story, and such an awkward, disgraceful situation. I felt deeply for your protagonist.
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, The First Dance by Catherine Law 1 year, 5 months ago
It is in Porthdeen, a small idyllic village on the Cornish coast, that we meet Alexa. The young daughter of landowners has breath-taking scenery right on her doorstep and an envy-inducing bond to a gorgeous […]
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, The Hunter by L. J. Smith 1 year, 6 months ago
Danger. Seduction. Fear. Temptation.
The weather forecast puts a dent in Jenny’s pool party plans for her stud boyfriend’s birthday and she desperately searches for something, anything, that will rescue the nig […]
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Rebecca Delphine wrote a new post, None Get Away 1 year, 7 months ago
Mist pours like white breath over the broken rocks, turning the runner’s blood pink before it hits the water.
Closer, the retrieving figures come, calm and slow.
The runner closes their eyes and sees those t […]
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