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• Lesson 4: use of setting
• Assignment 4

“I find it jars a little. After all, it was written for Marilyn Monroe. This is writing songs for dead blondes.”
(Keith Richards , in a 1997 interview with Toronto Sun writer Jane Stevenson commenting on Elton John's reworking of Candle in the Wind)

Assignment 4

The assignment this week is to write the first sentence for ten different short stories. The tutor intends to choose one and I suspect he is going to make us write a short story using it!

[Later] The ten first lines, for what they're worth, can be seen here