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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

How about this - Labour councillors have to condemn their party's complicity in genocide before others will work with them. Sign a pledge to say they'll hold their leaders to account for crimes under international law. I'd see them in the Hague. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Labour councils told to end agreements with Greens who do not condemn ‘Zionism is racism’ policy

Party chair calls on Labour groups to end local deals if Green councillors do not reject motion attacked as ‘antisemitic’

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Omniscient narrator is now rare, but Maggie O'Farrell's is stunning in The Hand that First Held Mine. She describes a garden with no one in it. We're told things about a character that they don't know yet. We change POV without a head-hop. www.justrightediting.co.uk/post/your-ti... #writingcommunity

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Perfecting your viewpoint

Getting your viewpoint right in your fiction is a key element of good writing – and one of the most common things that an editor will comment on.Which character?Getting your viewpoint right involves d...

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I can highly recommend the 'Short Works' series of stories on BBC iPlayer, and if you're also interested in local politics, you won't regret the 15 minutes you take to listen to this one, read by the very dry Rebecca Front. #writingcommunity www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Short Works - Take It to the Bridge - BBC Sounds

A brand-new satirical comedy by Gareth Ceredig. Read by Rebecca Front.

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My daughter gets fed up with being told she only agrees with a thing because she's a socialist. (With sarcasm): 'That's how this works. I'm a socialist because I think the principles of socialism are correct. I don't have genetic predisposition to socialism. I wasn't assigned socialist at birth.'

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The trick is to weave what you know into the story, if it fits. What you know isn't the story, though. Your story has to work on its own. #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

'For decades now there has been a Palestine exception to free speech. Since the Hamas attack on 7 October, however, that has ramped up massively... Despite all this, however, more people are coming to understand that what is happening to Palestinians is not complex, it is fundamentally wrong.'

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

There's a time on hot days when it's cooler to shut all the doors and windows in my triple-glazed, super-insulated house (today, 11 am). Insulation may not be sexy but it sure makes life comfortable.

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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There’s a rogue “O” in the book title

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Fortunately 99% of authors are lovely people and respond in the exact opposite way - with huge thanks for your input - and would never say this. But there's always the odd one ...

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

For me, an important aspect of historical fiction in particular is the theme and message of the book as a whole. What do you want your reader to say it was really about, in a nutshell? This was a book that provoked a lot of these thoughts! #writingcommunity #editing

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Mozart thought highly of her compositions, but none of them have survived...

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

There's a rich scope for imagining what all the animals would do in this world. Dolphins? Such party animals 😅 #writingcommunity

Conversation on Tumblr about how a world where magic is a raw force of nature, animals would figure out how to use it. Crows and ravens are smart enough. Dogs would cast projectiles to chase them.

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Pretty cool day out with half a million others in London. Lots of people took pics of my sign 😊 #togetheralliance #antiracism

I'm a blonde woman standing in the street before the match holding a sign saying 'Stop the yachts - the baddies are the billionaires '

On the march carrying a Green Party flag flying above people's heads in the breeze.

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

What a wonderful read. This book's habit of changing perspectives was a bit frustrating at first - because it drew me so closely in to each POV that I didn't want it to switch. The way each part of an emotional story is gently teased out with different voices is masterful. #writingcommunity #editing

A copy of This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I've just written an editing query about how I'd envisage four people would carry a corpse. The comments I never imagined writing! #writingcommunity #amediting

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Perhaps this betrayal of his own beliefs explains why Keir Starmer now looks (and sounds) like a diabolical alien has inhabited his body and is torturing him from the inside

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This week I've had a man confidently correct me wrongly several times, and I'm wondering if the English language needs a word for that. To co-wrong someone? #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

It's been three and a half years, and still when I see a sentence such as 'The Queen arrived...' I think, 'From beyond the grave???!!!' Happy 'Andrew's been arrested' day to all those who celebrate. #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

What sparks a story in your head? I've realised different people have different things in their heads before they start writing. For me it's often 'I wonder what it was like living at a time when...' Then I add some characters, and then I might think about writing something down! #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Updating my WIP: I think the story is basically sound, but needs more stakes. And there's one thread that's resolved too easily - it needs another obstacle. I love writing scenes but find plotting harder - getting a second opinion has really helped. #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I've picked up my novella-length WIP again. I don't think it's totally pants (but who knows?) and I'm now drowning in scribbled and disorganised notes. Time to put them down and keep writing. That's the fun part, anyway! #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

There's so much in the topic of viewpoint. Do you head-hop? Transition gently between POVs? Use limited? An omniscient narrator with their own voice? Slip into neutral and leave your reader at sea? Go deep, so there's no narrator at all? It's all in here. #writingcommunity bit.ly/49WKzD9

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Perfecting your viewpoint

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Do you ever admire an author more for their values and what they say in real life than for their writing? I've just bought Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (what a great title!) because I'd love to love her work more - even though I don't read much science fiction. #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

George Monbiot is spot on. Labour's authoritarian pro-business mindset gave us Mandelson and everything he did.

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Nature is fun. Patience is needed, though! About three months ago I took some cuttings from a jade plant and stripped some of the leaves. They looked a bit daft just arranged on top of the soil. But look! Tiny new plants!

Succulent jade plant leaves in a circle on a pot of soil with tiny new growth at their bases

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/01/2026

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

It's said that to be a socialist is to be right but six months early.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Delightful use of 'lampshading' in the BFG production at the RSC - where the writers are letting you know they know a plot point is illogical and make a joke out of it because they're not going to change it. #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Ah, the balance between making the characters real (no, they can't keep moving for two days without sleeping, eating or going to the loo) and refraining from plodding through every minor detail of their existence! #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I think my taste in music might be as varied as my taste in literature. My playlist contains Smashing Pumpkins, Meghan Trainor and piano concertos by Liszt. What's the literary equivalent to that? Tolstoy and Terry Pratchett? #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

If the US does this to Cuba, I'm going to cry.

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Last night we played 'who am I?' (You know, the game where you have a famous name on a post-it on your forehead and ask questions until you guess who you are.) I made a rule - every second person had to be a woman. My son couldn't do it 😔

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

'Those with real needs must, it seems, pay the price for Rachel Reeves' budget obsessions in John Burn-Murdoch's opinion.'

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Things I didn't imagine writing a comment about in a manuscript: expletive infixation! The expletive has to go before the primary stressed syllable, so abso-bloody-lutely is fine, ab-bloody-solutely is not. You're welcome! #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

My 'New to Fiction Editing' session for @the-ciep.bsky.social had a bumper attendance! We covered writing techniques that good fiction editors understand, such as around viewpoint, tense, narrator's voice, plus genre knowledge and sensitivity issues. An energising session! #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The best representation happens where a person's characteristics have an influence or a presence in the story, but aren't the reason for their existence in it. #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Would you try a pot luck book from the National Trust shop? #writingcommunity

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

'Police arrived and found the place desserted.' Great pun work here 😅

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Judith Leask | Fiction Editor @judithleask.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It does now seem, from Question Time, that the only way any of them can score points against Green Party policy is by misrepresenting it.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/11/2025

Hope is here. Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️

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