How to impress a literary agency in two days.
According to those at Prose I have only two days left to demonstrate my writing talent so I'd best get on with it.
Obviously, the first thing that springs to mind, is to use long and pretty words. Words like Llanfairpwllgwngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. My computer tells me that this is spelt incorrectly, it probably is but worse than that is the rather high chance that I pronounce it incorrectly too. Mrs Hartrey, my first ever teacher, taught me how to say this. I wonder, is this where she came from? Well I shall never know now as that was 41 years ago and I've no idea where she is now, she could be turning in her grave at my pronunciation. I hope not, I liked her, not as much as Mrs Toffs, I loved Mrs Toffs.
Anyhoo, there's my fancy word, now we should probably move on to some poetry. Poetry never fails to impress.
But I've already nailed that. Come on . . . . "those at Prose"
Damn I'm good.
What next?
A story? Now this is where I fall, I have little to no imagination. If it never happened I cannot write about it. This all leads me to an embarrassing halt. My word, as pretty as it is, is far too long to be of use. My poetry isn't so what now? My writing skills are poor at best so how do I impress a literary agency with only two days to go?
Oh, I've got it! I once met Robert Carlisle.