nothing in the rulebook
A collective of creatives bound by a single motto: There's nothing in the rulebook that says a giraffe can't play football!
Author: professorwu
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I Of the apple, rotten to its core Of gleaming realms decaying in the wake Of terror, mass-destruction, debt and war That then caused mankind’s foundations to shake. Of mistrust, fear, corruption and deceit; Of Earth and human nature, good and ill; Ten years of violence, crime, atrocious feats Committed by those who exploit…
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We live in a time when language is deliberately misused and manipulated – frequently for malicious purposes – to serve and support those in power. This is a time of ‘alt-facts’, an Orwellian landscape in which language is a tool of deception and demagoguery. The cries against this state of affairs are often silenced or…
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New poetry project will see haikus distributed among thousands of demonstrators at upcoming march on London in support of the UK’s National Health Service. Nothing in the Rulebook, a literary and new writing blog dedicated to new ideas, has launched its ‘Haikus for the NHS’ poetry project in support of the UK’s National Health…
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Scott Fitzgerald once wrote to a close family friend and aspiring young writer: “nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one”. It takes time, and effort. You have to put the hours in. You have to actually, well, write (surprising, huh?). We’ve previously asked whether there is such a thing as the…
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Millions of people around the world are set to tune into Donald Trump’s inauguration speech. But rather than give this ego-maniac the time of day, you can watch a far better, and surely far more eloquent speech by a much better man. Democracy calls for citizens to take a stand and fight for their candidates around…
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At the time of writing, Donald Trump – a thin-skinned charlatan, a self-proclaimed sexual harasser, a blusterer and a bigot – will be inaugurated today, the 20th January, as the 45th President of the United States of America. Many people are understandably dismayed at this reality. And, while we have done our best to…
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Filled with creative passion? Determined to make this year the year that you finally finish writing that novel you’ve been working on? We’re here to help. Can we write your novel for you? We would if only we could. Alas, that part is down to you; however, we can provide you with useful tools and…
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Self-described as “an American author, born in Russia, educated in England, [who] studied French texts”, Vladimir Nabokov is one of the most remarkable figures of 20th century literature. Perhaps most famous for his novel, Lolita, Nabokov was also a world-renowned expert on butterflies, so much so that in the 1940s he became curator of…
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In an increasingly digital world, literature is evolving. Sales of e-readers continue to rise, yet the cost of digital books and texts has not necessarily decreased to the extent to which many initially predicted. With authors’ incomes collapsing to near “abject” levels, and with public libraries under threat from swingeing public spending cuts, we felt…
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