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Sue Leather

@sueleather.bsky.social
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Double award-winning writer. Story Editor. Educator. Humanist. Proud Mancunian. sueleather.com/links

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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Slopification anyone? open.substack.com/pub/sueleath...
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Slopification anyone?
A writer’s thoughts on AI slop
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Check out my latest post at sueleather.substack.com
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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
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I took a bit of a detour to New Jersey this week to discuss whether you can show the writing process on film?
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Is writing dramatic?
A detour to New Jersey:
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
My new post is on Substack. sueleather.substack.com
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
My 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 #WomenWritersNetwork
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Writing a novel is easy, isn't it?
Mind the gap
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I'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
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
In which I write about why we write anyway, and some other stuff. #writers #writing #fiction sueleather.substack.com/p/tasting-li...
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
My 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...
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Beginnings
Me and the empty page
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Hey! I've just started a Substack reflecting on my journey to becoming a novelist! #writing #amwriting #WomenWritersNetwork #writers #author
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
First draft finished. Phew. #amwriting #writing #writers
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Vancouver Night.
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Needed a break from writing, so I painted some California Poppies.
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ William Faulkner
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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
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
David Lynch's writerly sensibility on show here.
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
What a joy to look at a blank page every day and create worlds. #writing #amwriting
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Memories 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.
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I’m kind of pleased with the cover I designed recently for a collection of Memoir pieces that I edited and contributed to .
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Word 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).
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Waiting 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
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
So true.
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Taking 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
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It doesn't happen every day, but sometimes hard work pays off. Thrilled for our team and for everyone who works with us. #mentoringworks #elt
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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
My current writing desk in Rapallo on the Ligurian coast of Italy.
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