Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Slopification anyone? open.substack.com/pub/sueleath...open.substack.comSlopification anyone?A writer’s thoughts on AI slop 100
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Check out my latest post at sueleather.substack.com 000
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 27/11/2025'I absolutely love writing, but there can be no doubt that it is sometimes physiologically demanding and often mentally exhausting. So what on earth is the strange compulsion that makes us write, that makes *me* write?' Read more at sueleather.substack.com 000
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I took a bit of a detour to New Jersey this week to discuss whether you can show the writing process on film?open.substack.comIs writing dramatic?A detour to New Jersey: 000
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 13/11/2025My new post is on Substack. sueleather.substack.com 000
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 06/11/2025My latest post on Substack, in which I write about creative gaps and the pain of giving birth (to stories). sueleather.substack.com/p/writing-a-... #amwriting #writers #novel #WomenWritersNetworksueleather.substack.comWriting a novel is easy, isn't it?Mind the gap 000
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I've just spent ten hours working on a short story that I wrote some time ago, so yeah, this speaks to me. #writing #writers #WomenWritersNetwork 000
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 29/10/2025In which I write about why we write anyway, and some other stuff. #writers #writing #fiction sueleather.substack.com/p/tasting-li... 020
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 24/10/2025My first post on Substack, in which I talk about why on earth you'd want to write a novel in the first place, staring at a blank page, going on detours, and finally... getting an idea. #Fiction #amwriting #novel #CreativeWriting #WomenWritersNetwork sueleather.substack.com/p/beginnings...sueleather.substack.comBeginningsMe and the empty page 221
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Hey! I've just started a Substack reflecting on my journey to becoming a novelist! #writing #amwriting #WomenWritersNetwork #writers #author 010
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 11/06/2025First draft finished. Phew. #amwriting #writing #writers 030
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Needed a break from writing, so I painted some California Poppies. 010
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 17/05/2025‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ William Faulkner 000
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 27/01/2025‘All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.’ George Orwell, Why I Write 000
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 18/01/2025What a joy to look at a blank page every day and create worlds. #writing #amwriting 010
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Memories float in the air like wraiths, wisps of ether in flux, fleeting and hard to hold onto. They come from a foreign land, one that no longer exists. They leave no material trace. Only the photograph testifies that yes, this was all quite real. 000
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I’m kind of pleased with the cover I designed recently for a collection of Memoir pieces that I edited and contributed to . 030
Reposted by Sue LeatherSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists). 878271993717
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Waiting for inspiration is how non-writers imagine writing. If you write, you know that’s nonsense. It’s all about hard work. To steal a quote from Edison, 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. #amwriting #writers #writing 010
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Taking in all kinds of art really helps my writing process. In the past week,I've read through a number of memoir pieces for a collection I'm editing, been to the opera in Genoa and visited the National Portrait Gallery in London. Now bursting with ideas! #amwriting #womenwritersnetwork 010
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 20/11/2024It doesn't happen every day, but sometimes hard work pays off. Thrilled for our team and for everyone who works with us. #mentoringworks #elt 2272
Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 14/11/2024My current writing desk in Rapallo on the Ligurian coast of Italy. 040