Your task is to select a setting and a set of characters for your murder mystery (possibly a murder mystery dinner party). Using the techniques we saw in G K Chesterton's The Secret Garden, develop your first four paragraphs of a murder mystery short story, focusing on the setting and the characters.
Your goal is to use the setting to create a striking sense of atmosphere, and to help the reader understand the world that they have entered by reading your work. Then I want you to introduce your characters, and help the reader understand something of what each character looks like, their motivations and whether they are likeable, or indeed trustworthy, at first impression.
Please write this in a new document in your ENL212 folder in your google drive, and share it with me by 5pm Thursday 7 May. I will read your writing on Thursday evening, and use it to plan our session for the following day.
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