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    Your writing critiqued

    Mar 03, 2022 6 minutes

    Emily Foster-Tomkinson has wanted to be an author since she was nine years old. In 2016 she graduated with a degree in Creative Writing from Kingston University and has been submitting to agents and publishers ever since.

    It started like most unexpected tragedies start; uneventfully.1 The day was grey and overcast with a constant stream of drizzle2 that did nothing to dampen Zoe’s spirits.3 The forest was a wash of reds, oranges and yellows.4 Leaves were falling as quickly as the rain5 and the smell of damp foliage mixed with that of bonfire smoke that seemed to be constantly around that time of year.6

    “Aren’t you cold?” said Oliver, looking at Zoe in just her jumper.7 The son of a mother from Berkshire and a father from Edinburgh, Oliver’s accent constantly swapped from English to Scottish, sometimes mid-sentence.8

    “A bit,” she admitted.9 “But

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