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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter

@susannahjbell.bsky.social
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I live in Bloomsbury. I write. Sometimes it goes quite well. 📚🧡🤔 *Pictures not my own unless signed SJB 🚫 No DMs. My books on Amazon: tinyurl.com/3hncmj29

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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good Morning! It's October tomorrow (fruitful mists of autumn and such) and I'm wearing a tanktop and have bare feet 🤔 #globalwarming #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good Morning! It's a hot chocolate sort of morning 🤎 #grumpy #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good Morning! One pink geranium blooming on my windowsill in the gentle morning sunshine 😊 #windowsill #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good Morning! When you're fizzing with energy and everyone around you has yet to crawl from the primordial ooze 💥 #lazypeople #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good Morning! The profound satisfaction in uninstalling the horrible slow bloated hellspawn that is Adobe Acrobat 😈 #AdobeSucks #WritersLife #Coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good Morning! If I could move, I wonder where I'd go 🤔 #restless #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good Morning! Or good afternoon if you live on the other side of the universe 🧡 #inexorable #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good Morning! Met a squirrel this morning who ate five entire peanuts (i.e. ten nuts inside five shells) in one sitting 😲 #starving #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good Morning! Must confess I really like the creepy cover girl I found for my book The Nightmarist. Quite indecently grungy 😂 (Link in comments) #ebook #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good Morning! The squirrels were out in their hordes this morning. Must remember to take some nuts! 🐿️ #hungry #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good Morning! It's a beautiful day and the grass is (literally) green again 💚 #recovery #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good Morning! Sometimes I can't think of anything wise to say or anything to complain about, which is probably a good thing😂 #ThursdayThoughts #WritersLife #Coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good Morning! I would rather walk where the trees are than where they aren't 🌳 #nature #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good Morning The trees in my area of London have suffered terrible stress all summer, losing their leaves in an effort to survive. So what does Camden Council do? Pollard them so that they have no chance of recuperating and will inevitably die. #evil #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good Morning! The main female character in the novel I'm currently editing is called Aster. The Wordle word on Friday was aster. [cue X-Files music]🎶 #weird #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Good Morning! When you decide to do a Google Docs spelling & grammar check on a novel you self-published fifteen years ago and it takes three days 😭 #editing #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good Morning My prayers are with those who lost loved ones 25 years ago today, and with those who went beyond bravery to help where they could 9/11 🙏 #NineEleven #WritersLife #Coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good Morning! This has turned into a two-cups-of-coffee day ☕ #wired #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good Morning! How to have an entire morning's work ruined: your computer freezes for four hours because of an impending update which then goes on to make everything worse, slower, and did I mention WORSE 🤬 #IHateMicrosoft #WritersLife #Coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good Morning! My horrible haircut was rescued yesterday by Darren at Huckle the Barber and I was so overjoyed by the transformation that I literally floated home on a cloud of gorgeousness!🥰 #Huckle #WritersLife #Coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good Morning! Off to yet another new hairdresser this morning in the desperate hope he can fix up the disaster on my head 😬 #anxious #writerslife #coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Good Morning! Somewhat startled to realise that the by-election in my local borough is a focus for the entire country who all think it the playground of the rich when in fact my immediate surrounds are squalid, dirty, and desperately poor 😠 #WTF #WritersLife #Coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good Morning! Now that it's a trifle cooler, I can finally start doing a bit of gardening (or pot planting) 👩‍🌾 #writerslife #coffee #rain
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good Morning! Today is purple 💜 #writerslife #coffee #rain
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Good Morning! So it appears Halley's Comet didn't have a name back in 1066, other than "portentous" 🌟 #BayeuxTapestry #WritersLife #Rain
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good Morning! Found another hairdresser who (may) rescue my disastrous haircut but had to pay a 50% deposit which was MORE than the price of the bad haircut in the first place 😱 #RipOff #WritersLife #Rain
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good Morning! Tried a new hairdresser today and thank the gods and all the angels and every deity that ever looked kindly upon us that...........hair grows back 😭😭😭😭😭 #BadHairCut #WritersLife #Waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Good Morning! I am wearing .... a sweater! 💙 (but still no rain) #cooler #writerslife #rain
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Good Morning! My collection of short stories is shaping up nicely!😊 #writing #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Good Morning! It tried to rain. Then it gave up. Those zigzags on weather apps mean nothing 😔 #drought #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Good Morning! Dolly Parton was a goddess! I'm so sorry she's left this mortal coil but what a legacy she's left behind! She wanted kids to read books. And Jolene... 🧡 #DollyParton #WritersLife #Coffee
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good Morning! Trying to type with a giant plaster wrapped around a finger and adding the letter "g" to almost every word 😂😭 #injured #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Good Morning! When you create a land of magic and you think, oh no, you've just copied Narnia, but then you realise it's far too grown up for Narnia and there aren't any children or animals 👀 #magic #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Good Morning! Working on a collection of short stories which may end up being ten inches thick 😂 (thank goodness for e-readers...) #ebooks #writerslife #rain
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good Morning! I have to say that, in my opinion entirely, the word "augtober" is truly repulsive 😝 #mangled #writerslife #rain
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Good Morning! It's a cardigan day!😍 #fresh #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Good Morning! When you spray some sticky blowdry goop on your hair and the grocery delivery arrives 😂 #timing #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Good Morning! Ooo! 600-day streak on Wordle! 😊 #wordler #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Good Morning! When there's cloud and no rain and the humidity is now a million percent 🥵 #sticky #writerslife #rain
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Good Morning! When you can solve the 7-letter Waffle but not the 5-letter one 😂 #wafflegame #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Good Morning! Saw a little old lady this morning struggling with a huge bottle of water, filled from a tap, and watering the dead grass on the square, one slow bottle at a time. This woman is my hero😌 #drought #writerslife #rain
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Good Morning! Blew the weekly food budget on flowers to cheer myself up 💐 #despondent #writerslife #rain
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Good Morning! Bought some green bananas from the supermarket and by the time I got home, they were ripe ☀️🔥🍌 #hot #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Good Morning! When you're trying to pay customs charge to Royal Mail and they didn't send you a red card but the website says you don't need one and then it asks you for the red card barcode 🤬 #stupid #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Good Morning! I must say that partial solar eclipse has picked a most inconsiderate time to occur in central London. Unless you live in a skyscraper, on a hill, or on a vast open estate with no buildings in sight, no one's going to see it 😔 #solareclipse #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Good Morning! Just wrapping up the 10th Exodus Sequence story!😊 #writing #writerslife #water
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Good Morning! When you write a novel and it doesn't fit any of the genres available, thus making it utterly unsellable 😭 #OnlyOne #WritersLife #Waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Good Morning! Already zombified by the heat and humidity. Another fun week of killer temperatures. Month four of hell. Will the aliens PLEASE bring us a bucket of nice fresh water now 😔 #heatwave #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Good Morning! Just finished a first draft! Whoop whoop! 🥳 #writing #writerslife #waterfall
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DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Good Morning! How to write a novel like Andy Weir: The Martian: the world saves one man Project Hail Mary: one man saves the world Aha. I think I'm getting the hang of this.....😂 #BrilliantBooks #WritersLife #Waterfall
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