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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Human beings have been reporting on wars and battles almost as long as there have been wars and battles (which may mean they have always been, if you are to accept the idea that mankind has an innate inclination toward violence). The earliest cave paintings depicted our forebears on great hunts; and oral histories of…
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News of the death of Ursula Le Guin at the age of 88 has hit the literary world hard. The sharp-minded, large-spirited, incomparably brilliant Le Guin brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy, and for many stood as a triumphant champion of the written word – and books in…
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I’m so beautiful and good looking That reminds me of another beautiful thing I’ve seen Beautiful hats Beautiful coal Look at these scissors I have never seen scissors that look this beautiful before Beauty and elegance, whether in a woman or a building, Comes down to one thing: You don’t give a shit if…
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The quite frankly brilliant independent publishing house, CB Editions, has announced the publication date of the equally brilliant Will Eaves’s latest novel, Murmur. Taking its cue from the arrest and legally enforced chemical castration of the mathematician Alan Turing, Murmur is the account of a man who responds to intolerable physical and mental stress with…
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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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