By limiting yourself to a few characters and one or two locations, you may find it easier to keep your story from getting out of hand and spiraling off into tangents. While Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” has a larger cast of characters, the story takes place perhaps over one hour in a town square. John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” is about one character: a suburban American father who decides to swim through all of his neighbor’s pools. Short story writers often find it fruitful to focus on a single character, setting, or event - an approach that is responsible for some true classics. There’s less pressure to have a rich narrative mapped out from A to Z before your pen hits the paper. Short stories, by their very nature, tend to be narrower in scope than a novel. Start with an interesting character or setting
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