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Lauren Lopes - Author

@laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social
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🇿🇦 Author 📚 Neurodivergent penguin who will shower you with fact pebbles 🐧 Has all the thoughts 🧵 Coffee ☕️

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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Hyperfocus, flow, dissociation and the state between sleep and wakefulness (almost a meditation) are slightly different fragrances of the same feeling Some days I’ll slip from one to the other depending on what I’m doing, and the next day everything will be mingled in my memories,
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If you want to know what it feels like to live in the confines of a wet facecloth you can visit Cape Town, idk
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Seriously Linda
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
My kettle is such a sassy little thing - as soon as I turn off the heat, it gives this little whistle of protest in what can only be described as a disgruntled squeak
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Without context and for no particular reason I’d like for you to learn about Miriam Makeba Far more than a line in a viral TT song, she was a South African Grammy award winning powerhouse of a woman who held international acclaim as a singer and activist
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
If y’all want to educate yourselves about what to expect and how to handle it for the foreseeable future I’d recommend researching apartheid South Africa and ANC resistance. And for all those using South Africa as the way to slam a certain oligarch, you know that the literal majority
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Florence + The Machine is getting me through a dystopian perimenopause, I swear
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I just thought of something. If we are willing to read and follow those little notes on plants to see where best to plant them so they thrive, why are we blaming the kids who don’t do well in a school system that’s all the same soil, sun, and watering?
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
You want real enemies to lovers? Me and coffee. Hear me out It gave me heart palpitations and made me jittery. But when I had kids I needed something to stay conscious and so it was a forced proximity kind of thing How was I to know the jitters were because I’d just found the one my heart desires?
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Chat, I scheduled three meetings today so I’m putting myself in time out for that egregious error Until the next meeting
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
To all those freezing their booty cheeks off in the US I think Cape Town took your residual heat because wtf 😭
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
For someone who has time space synesthesia where my brain makes pictures of time constructs in my mind, you’d think I’d be better with maps
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Isabella (my FMC) told me she had ADHD before I knew I did. I think my subconscious had been working on that and presented in a character One person makes her feel smaller because of it and one gives her space to thrive Without realising it, I wrote the difference between being perceived and seen
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
When I see or hear beautiful things, I cry. I gave that same attribute to my MMC, Brendan. This is a retelling of beauty and the beast, remember, so you see where I’m going with this…
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
One of my favourite things when writing is to let my characters ‘speak’ to me. I’ll come up with a premise and their vibe but the characterisation is usually organic. Isabella is ADHD and averse to feeling her feelings. Brendan has PTSD and body issues. I get to help them love all of themselves.
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Not feeling like I’m constantly about to drop into a coma from severe chronic anemia is a lovely change of pace, I must say
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Pull up a chair and grab some cheese for this whine I haven’t been trained in UX but work enough with online based design that I’d say I’m adjacent to it as a creator and also a user of a LOT of apps and programs /1
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I’ve added a few people to this amazing bookish starter pack - really, I have zero time for drama and mean girl energy and everyone in this pack embodies the opposite go.bsky.app/4cRmRQJ
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I've just realised that I unintentionally wrote an MMC who thinks he's a shadow daddy but is really a cinnamon roll before I even knew what those things were, and now I love my damaged billionaire sad boi even more 😭 (Non bookish folk, feel free to ask what that even means lol)
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
So the masculine energy zuck spoke about was the masked thirst trap tiktokkers who unmasked as women right? Right?
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Maybe if more of a certain demographic read Hunger Games and Fourth Wing alongside Rich Dad Poor Dad and Jordan Peterson tomes, they would see the forest for the trees (Instead of razing the whole thing to the ground)
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I feel like we just watched an ideological 9/11 but the call came from inside the house My US friends, we are reeling with you
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I also love how we think classical music is so cultured but the beef those guys had with each other made them PETTY The pianoforte was accompanied by cucumber sandwiches and tea that was piping hot
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I love how Leonard Cohen gave us a lil cheat sheet for the chords in the middle of Hallelujah, like you wanna write a song that makes people cry, here ya go
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The Hot Mess Express agreed to TWO events this weekend with a family of introverts, two of whom just started school again last week so please clap for the social hangover we all have today 😒
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’m not a historian and I don’t live in the US but my pattern recognition is pretty top notch so in light of that let’s diversify where and how we share information, and also this type of resource exists for countries already suffering censorship as an FYI
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Any data scientists on here? I’m curious if you visually mapped hive mind systems like bees and ants and then did the same with big topics on social media to see if there are similarities because I bet there are
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
It’s inevitable that some of me will find its way into my characters, but Isabella’s near obscene addiction to coffee was a bit I committed to as a book-long dedication to the silent partner that got it written
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Boom you guys got me to 1,000 friends here because of other awesome friends who added me to starter packs! Love connecting with like minded people 🙌🏼😍
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Please be blessed by the photos I took at this awesome little afro steampunk coffee shop My friend @thatauthorbuhle.bsky.social is working on an afropunk story and when I sent these to her she said they fit the vibes, so needless to say I can’t wait to see it
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Being an author is 90% coffee and 10% bullying yourself
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Me to the weed eater next door having a menty b: bro you okay?
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I started my own business in 2010 when my kid was born (I know, I know, I was young and clueless) because I wanted flexibility and WFH wasn't really a thing then It's been a tough journey but also incredibly rewarding. It works with my brain, and for someone who hated corporate, it's been the best
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I've been an avid reader since I learned how. One of my most formative memories is of resting against the foot of my bed on the floor, with red apples and popcorn beside me, devouring books during the school holidays. /1
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I gotta say, somehow I managed to get the most awesome client to work with. Using the majority of my hours because they are a retainer client, and as anyone who has their own business will tell you, this is a blessing It’s a team of women who just make my work so rewarding
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Rosalie Fox 🇿🇦 @rosaliefoxauthor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
No words to describe the sky tonight #photography #sunsetsky
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Benjamin Twigg Author @bjtwiggwriter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
What do fireball wielding dads with a hero complex do when a Behemoth comes to town? Find out in…
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I made a Starter Pack of all the incredible bookish friends I found on Threads! It was my first foray into the public social media space and this community has changed my life (The search function went weird halfway so I’ll be adding people that didn’t show as I go) go.bsky.app/4cRmRQJ
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Well done, the Hot Mess Express made it on time today, no mishaps (yet) Choo choo!
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Totally on brand for me, the Hot Mess Express aka Lauren finally got her kid into his new class and managed to have a meeting, but only after getting lost while lugging a box that carried the weight of a dystopian future, and then forgetting the meeting and rescheduling it I need more coffee
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
If you have coffee anywhere in your bio, I'll probably follow you Am I in a cult?
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Any podcasting/audiobook recording friends on here? What’s a relatively low cost way to do a decent recording area or booth that doesn’t echo or scratch and what do you record on (device and software)? #voicerecording #audiobook #podcast #recordingbooth
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
For all my #writer friends on here, I have created some free YouTube tutorials for Canva to help you with promo graphics I’m a writer and a designer so I get both sides of the marketing agony 😆 Here’s the playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
A hero shot of a book cover and examples of three tutorials depicted on mobile phones with the text “learn how to do this” and “I create free tutorials for Canva on YouTube.”
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Go shorty, it’s your birthday - me to me, at 5’3
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
One more day until I’m the age of the meaning of life I shall sit on top of an ancient hill and dispense wisdom for all who seek it
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
What if the mob gathering at the tavern for drinking songs & gossip about the strange girl who reads were reimagined as The Mob with The Tavern, their server with enough evidence to bring down their whole crime operation? What if that strange girl is a hacker, who The Mob now have in their sights?
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Lauren Lopes - Author @laurenlopesauthor.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Gosh, there’s just something so satisfying about writing with a great pen
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