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!
Tag: writing
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How can men get away from their “bulbous salutations” and descriptions of women as empty vassals for them to have sex with, and start writing sex that is actually good?
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Few writers consistently and exuded as much visionary force as beloved author Toni Morrison, who has died today at the age of 88. The author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. In her stunning Nobel prize acceptance speech (which…
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Lisa Marie Simmons offers her reflections on music, songwriting, touring, and creating new art
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Changing pen colour daily, playing Glastonbury, working in graveyards: authors at Newark Book Festival share how they really write their books in conversations with Ellen Lavelle
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A book illustrator’s work begins where the editors have left off…
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Pick up your party hats and join Nothing in the Rulebook for our first ever creative summer party, as we raise a glass to our community of creatives and celebrate our fourth anniversary – as well as our new site redesign. Since first launching in August 2015, we’ve been absolutely honoured to feature a whole…
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Sam Bellamy asks whether writers and artists must collectivise in order to compete against corporate power structures
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In 2014, I rid myself of all possessions that couldn’t fit in a backpack, and threw myself entirely on the mercy of this wondrous planet of ours. For the next four years, I trekked across Mongolian steppe-land, Egyptian sand dunes, Kenyan swamps, and the cobblestoned streets of innumerable ancient cities. In the spring of 2018,…
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The ride to Philadelphia would take approximately three and a half hours. Nina rented the car for two weeks, to be on the safe side. Her mother had a way of dragging these things out; the funeral wouldn’t last only a few days. “Seeing as you’re here,” her mother would say. “You might as well…
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This summer, thousands of shows, actors, directors, writers, musicians and other creatives descending upon the streets of Edinburgh for the world famous Fringe festival. As a collective of creatives, this very much feels like our sort of jam – the diversity of artistic talent on display is enough to make your creative tastebuds start salivating…
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