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7, the author looks at banyan trees, whose "aerial roots dripped like melting wax from several boughs, digging their way back into the earth.”
Now, these were not the greatest similes ever minted, but they had the ring of a WRITER at work. If freelancers are to hook the jaded reader-in a publishing house, they should work for the first whistle.
A long time ago, as a reporter; 1 interviewed a little old lady who had a remarkable record of winning contests. What was her secret? "The t$d mitten," she said. Her custom was4» paste a small red mitten, cut from Christmas wrapping paper, on the fifiit page of her entry. She had learned tlfit in the final winnowing, a judge likely to say, "Let’s look again at tfce one with the red mitten."
It worked for her. A well-turned phrase, lighting up the first 500 worJs, could work as well for you. «
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