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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Check out my latest post at sueleather.substack.com

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 · 21/11/2025

Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it isn’t. 😀

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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A3. Writing the first draft of my novel. I finished it , got feedback from my DE and am now working on a second draft.

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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 · 07/11/2025

Hard to explain as it's quite unusual. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Sorry, that should be Etgar Keret . Quite ironic that Autocorrect autocorrected my spelling of the name of the author of Autocorrect.

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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 · 06/11/2025

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch & Autocorrect by Edgar Kerry.

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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Yes, I have. Not sure really. Sometimes, I think it’s better to got with a like-minded friend. Then you can talk about it afterwards.

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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 · 31/10/2025

So glad it resonated with you!

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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’m not sure what exactly you want the link to. If you go to Amazon and search for my name, you’ll find my books.

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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 · 28/10/2025

This one is contemporary crime fiction with a strong historical background.

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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Do you mean this novel? About a year and a half from conception. But I've been writing original fiction for learners for a number of years.

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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Hi Lucy Jane. Sort of. Writing my first novel, though have had other things published.

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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 · 24/10/2025

I'm just getting the first draft of my novel ready to go to my development editor. I also started a Sustack 'My Writing Journey' to talk about writing a first novel. I hope it will be of use to others embarking on the journey. 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 · 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 · 15/01/2025

Difficult to give a cogent answer without more details of where it will be published, what do the queer characters do, say etc.

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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Unless it has explicit details of sex, not sure it has to have a flag. I mean, I’m assuming it’s published for a liberal western audience…

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Sue Leather @sueleather.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Do you mean that it has a queer character?

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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 · 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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