Marion Lougheed
@marionlougheed.bsky.social
Writer, editor, TCK, and anthropologist.
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The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
This text was published in social media in January 2017 in a series of improvised, spontaneous tweets, which reached 3 million views within one month. Their common element was their trademark signatur...
verfassungsblog.de
An excellent resource from those who have walked this road before. Please share widely! It's very readable and useful.
#US #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Help #WhatCanIDo
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#US #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Help #WhatCanIDo
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Can't get enough writing time?
Come to our retreat! We'll visit Germany's 2nd biggest book fair. Write by the lake + in one of Europe's oldest coffee houses! ✍️😀
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#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingRetreat #Leipzig #Europe #History #Germany #Coffee #WritingTime
Come to our retreat! We'll visit Germany's 2nd biggest book fair. Write by the lake + in one of Europe's oldest coffee houses! ✍️😀
offtopicpublishing.com/retreat
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingRetreat #Leipzig #Europe #History #Germany #Coffee #WritingTime
2026 Writing Retreat
Leipzig, Germany – March 15-21 – includes a visit to the Leipzig Book Fair! Maybe you’ve been writing for years. Maybe you’ve never had the courage or the opportunity to set…
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September 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Can't get enough writing time?
Come to our retreat! We'll visit Germany's 2nd biggest book fair. Write by the lake + in one of Europe's oldest coffee houses! ✍️😀
offtopicpublishing.com/retreat
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingRetreat #Leipzig #Europe #History #Germany #Coffee #WritingTime
Come to our retreat! We'll visit Germany's 2nd biggest book fair. Write by the lake + in one of Europe's oldest coffee houses! ✍️😀
offtopicpublishing.com/retreat
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingRetreat #Leipzig #Europe #History #Germany #Coffee #WritingTime
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An excellent resource from those who have walked this road before. Please share widely! It's very readable and useful.
#US #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Help #WhatCanIDo
verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
#US #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Help #WhatCanIDo
verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
This text was published in social media in January 2017 in a series of improvised, spontaneous tweets, which reached 3 million views within one month. Their common element was their trademark signatur...
verfassungsblog.de
February 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
An excellent resource from those who have walked this road before. Please share widely! It's very readable and useful.
#US #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Help #WhatCanIDo
verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
#US #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Help #WhatCanIDo
verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
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We're excited for our online salon next Tuesday. Brilliant readers
@elvisbego.bsky.social @lozzawriting.bsky.social @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @cathbwriter.bsky.social @nancyfreund.bsky.social & more. Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz! Laughs! Friends!
Book here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
@elvisbego.bsky.social @lozzawriting.bsky.social @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @cathbwriter.bsky.social @nancyfreund.bsky.social & more. Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz! Laughs! Friends!
Book here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
July 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We're excited for our online salon next Tuesday. Brilliant readers
@elvisbego.bsky.social @lozzawriting.bsky.social @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @cathbwriter.bsky.social @nancyfreund.bsky.social & more. Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz! Laughs! Friends!
Book here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
@elvisbego.bsky.social @lozzawriting.bsky.social @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @cathbwriter.bsky.social @nancyfreund.bsky.social & more. Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz! Laughs! Friends!
Book here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
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As well as travelling around Europe, we like to run events you can join from the comfort of home.
Put these dates in your diaries. Details below.
Put these dates in your diaries. Details below.
May 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
As well as travelling around Europe, we like to run events you can join from the comfort of home.
Put these dates in your diaries. Details below.
Put these dates in your diaries. Details below.
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POSTPONED (That means you can still sign up! Yay!):
Writing Supernatural Detectives, with Bryce Raffle
Dive into the delicate balance of blending mystery/thrillers with supernatural elements. Learn to weave grounded logic and the paranormal.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/writing-su...
#WritingWorkshops
Writing Supernatural Detectives, with Bryce Raffle
Dive into the delicate balance of blending mystery/thrillers with supernatural elements. Learn to weave grounded logic and the paranormal.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/writing-su...
#WritingWorkshops
Writing Supernatural Detectives - with Bryce Raffle
Dive into the delicate balance of blending mystery/thrillers with supernatural elements. Learn to weave grounded logic and the paranormal.
www.eventbrite.ca
May 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
POSTPONED (That means you can still sign up! Yay!):
Writing Supernatural Detectives, with Bryce Raffle
Dive into the delicate balance of blending mystery/thrillers with supernatural elements. Learn to weave grounded logic and the paranormal.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/writing-su...
#WritingWorkshops
Writing Supernatural Detectives, with Bryce Raffle
Dive into the delicate balance of blending mystery/thrillers with supernatural elements. Learn to weave grounded logic and the paranormal.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/writing-su...
#WritingWorkshops
"I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence."
- Toni Morrison
- Toni Morrison
May 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence."
- Toni Morrison
- Toni Morrison
Got my draft of Magic Club (working title) bound today! Now I can go through my (own) editorial comments without having to look at a screen. Yay!
May 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Got my draft of Magic Club (working title) bound today! Now I can go through my (own) editorial comments without having to look at a screen. Yay!
Excited to be teaching two more classes - one 3-hour workshop and one 4-week course - through the Alexandra Writers Centre Society.
Visit their website to register!
www.alexandrawriters.org/store/p807/p...
www.alexandrawriters.org/store/p808/t...
Visit their website to register!
www.alexandrawriters.org/store/p807/p...
www.alexandrawriters.org/store/p808/t...
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Excited to be teaching two more classes - one 3-hour workshop and one 4-week course - through the Alexandra Writers Centre Society.
Visit their website to register!
www.alexandrawriters.org/store/p807/p...
www.alexandrawriters.org/store/p808/t...
Visit their website to register!
www.alexandrawriters.org/store/p807/p...
www.alexandrawriters.org/store/p808/t...
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April 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Calling all writers! Want to stay in the loop on publishers currently open for submissions? Get industry news straight to your inbox! 📬✨
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#amwriting #writingresources #submissionready #writingopportunities #writesky
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#amwriting #writingresources #submissionready #writingopportunities #writesky
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These are good ideas because they're my ideas. My obsessions, my phobias, my subconscious and thoughts and memories. I don't want someone else's stuff! It's so boring when someone tells you 'I have an idea for your next book!' because it doesn't mean anything to you.
May 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
These are good ideas because they're my ideas. My obsessions, my phobias, my subconscious and thoughts and memories. I don't want someone else's stuff! It's so boring when someone tells you 'I have an idea for your next book!' because it doesn't mean anything to you.
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Yup. I continue to say that AI is for those who fetishize THE IDEA and dismiss THE WORK. It's for those people who come up to writers and say, "I got a great idea for a book, I'll give it to you, you write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50," as if the idea is the hardest and most important part.
I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.
May 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Yup. I continue to say that AI is for those who fetishize THE IDEA and dismiss THE WORK. It's for those people who come up to writers and say, "I got a great idea for a book, I'll give it to you, you write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50," as if the idea is the hardest and most important part.
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@marionlougheed.bsky.social and @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social here's the goodread page for the Home Anthology: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Home An Anthology
What is home? Is it a place? A feeling? A person? Does …
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May 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
@marionlougheed.bsky.social and @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social here's the goodread page for the Home Anthology: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Original creator unknown.
May 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Original creator unknown.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Have you submitted to our Trans and Genderqueer Voices Anthology?
Details here: offtopicpublishing.com/opencalls
#WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #WritersOfBsky #LGBTQIA #Queer #Writing
Details here: offtopicpublishing.com/opencalls
#WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #WritersOfBsky #LGBTQIA #Queer #Writing
Open Calls
Off Topic’s open calls for submission can be found here
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May 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Have you submitted to our Trans and Genderqueer Voices Anthology?
Details here: offtopicpublishing.com/opencalls
#WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #WritersOfBsky #LGBTQIA #Queer #Writing
Details here: offtopicpublishing.com/opencalls
#WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #WritersOfBsky #LGBTQIA #Queer #Writing
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Always greet your neighborhood turkey politely: good morning, good sir! 🦃
May 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Always greet your neighborhood turkey politely: good morning, good sir! 🦃
One of my favourite articles from the inimitable Toni Morrison. If you're a writer or artist of any kind, this is well worth the read.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
www.thenation.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
One of my favourite articles from the inimitable Toni Morrison. If you're a writer or artist of any kind, this is well worth the read.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
Got my article copy sent off today - yay! Now on to the next task. Which is... editing, I think!
May 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Got my article copy sent off today - yay! Now on to the next task. Which is... editing, I think!
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Today we honour Laila Soueif on her birthday, a tireless advocate for justice and the mother of imprisoned writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
Now on hunger strike for his release, we stand in solidarity with her and renew our call for his immediate freedom.
#FreeAlaa
Now on hunger strike for his release, we stand in solidarity with her and renew our call for his immediate freedom.
#FreeAlaa
May 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Today we honour Laila Soueif on her birthday, a tireless advocate for justice and the mother of imprisoned writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
Now on hunger strike for his release, we stand in solidarity with her and renew our call for his immediate freedom.
#FreeAlaa
Now on hunger strike for his release, we stand in solidarity with her and renew our call for his immediate freedom.
#FreeAlaa
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Join me Aug 9 & 10 @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social annual summer writing conference. Workshops with @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @csuther.bsky.social @abuckleyauthor.bsky.social #writingcommunity
April 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Join me Aug 9 & 10 @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social annual summer writing conference. Workshops with @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @csuther.bsky.social @abuckleyauthor.bsky.social #writingcommunity
Why? I just stumbled upon a plagiarized copy of an article I wrote for Writer's Digest. There is zero attribution to either me or the magazine.
WHY? Not only is this illegal, it gives me zero faith in this company's services. They're called Ghost Writer Inside. Please don't work with them.
WHY? Not only is this illegal, it gives me zero faith in this company's services. They're called Ghost Writer Inside. Please don't work with them.
April 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Why? I just stumbled upon a plagiarized copy of an article I wrote for Writer's Digest. There is zero attribution to either me or the magazine.
WHY? Not only is this illegal, it gives me zero faith in this company's services. They're called Ghost Writer Inside. Please don't work with them.
WHY? Not only is this illegal, it gives me zero faith in this company's services. They're called Ghost Writer Inside. Please don't work with them.
I asked online for help sharing the poster for the Off Topic Writers' Conference and almost FIFTY people responded affirmatively.
FIFTY.
Humanity ain't so bad.
FIFTY.
Humanity ain't so bad.
a woman in a pink top says " you are an inspiration "
ALT: a woman in a pink top says " you are an inspiration "
media.tenor.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I asked online for help sharing the poster for the Off Topic Writers' Conference and almost FIFTY people responded affirmatively.
FIFTY.
Humanity ain't so bad.
FIFTY.
Humanity ain't so bad.
If you like vultures, here's a cool news doc about vultures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqm...
The return of vultures to Europe | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
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April 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you like vultures, here's a cool news doc about vultures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqm...