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Category: Professor Wu’s Rulebook
Opinion pieces; blog posts; articles
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I have a question: Why can’t we use nuclear weapons? I have a nuclear button And I have big beautiful hands But my button is much bigger and more powerful And my button works ~ Anonymous A note on the above poem: All the lines of ‘A question’ are taken, verbatim, from Donald Trump speeches, Tweets,…
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Sorry losers and haters, but my IQ is one of the highest I guarantee I have a vocabulary better than you I’m intelligent Some people would say I’m very, very, very intelligent I am, like, really smart I am a very smart person I went to school I’m very intelligent Trust me, I’m like a…
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The average British family is set to spend almost £800 on Christmas this year – and their American counterparts will themselves spend around US$950. That’s an awful lot of turkey and cranberry sauce to go with all those horrible socks for your uncle and those whisky stones for your hipster brother – not to…
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At the start of 2016, Nothing in the Rulebook reported that authors’ incomes had collapsed to “near abject” levels – with professional writers earning on average just £11,000 a year. Now, the trend seems to have accelerated, with a new report finding that a “collapse” in sales of literary fiction had seen advanced paid to…
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When we last wrote about computer algorithms producing works of creative writing, we were talking slightly off-kilter poetry from the ‘mind’ of a program called OGDEN. Now we’re back on the topic again – only this time we’ve abandoned poetry in favour of Harry Potter; the greatest selling book franchise of all time. Less an…
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When we last published our list of upcoming writing competitions, Donald Trump had just been elected to the White House and we weren’t entirely sure if we’d make it all the way through 2017. With that in mind, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if you – like us – spent the year feverishly writing…
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It seems old hat to say that mainstream publishing has been facing an existential crisis in recent years. As profit margins thin, the go-to response from the biggest publishing houses has been to retreat from investing in new ideas, and to banking on “sure things” – which, as Julian Barnes has noted, essentially amounts to…
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Have you noticed it in the air? Perhaps it’s something etched onto the faces of passers-by, or the fuzzy feeling in your stomach that lifts you up and puts a smile on your face. That’s right – it’s that time of year again – the literary period that brings one of the greatest gifts of…
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After reviewing Nick Brooks’s excellent book, Sexy Haiku, we’ve been reading and re-reading this extraordinarily erotic collection over and over, picking out the haiku that just stay with you, leaving you turning them over in your head throughout the day. Indeed, we’ve become a little obsessed with just how good this book is. In…
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