![]() ![]() 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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