different or same location

[billyf027]

Hi,
When writing a new short story. Should you switch locations all the time?
Do you ever use the same location again for a different story?

[Mike Coombes]

Switch locations if you want a different loction. It's your choice. Some people have written whole series of books/stories set in the same place.

[historian]

Using the same site would work well for a book collection of short stories. Makes it almost seem like a novel.

historian

[Kate Thornton]

I've used the same location for several unrelated stories. Sometimes you come up with a time/space that is perfect for your characters. Sometimes the location is a real one, sometimes just a recurring dream of your own.

H.P. Lovecraft did it with Arkham.

[MidnightMuse]

Define your location. Earth? A city? A particular little section of a particular universe that you're the sole creator of?

I see no problem in keeping the location, if you've fallen in love with it and that location serves the stories you're writing.

[bsolah]

I've often been tempted to do the same, and even use the same characters, but I've often thought that would be limited to collections.

I suppose you have to write the story you're given. If you change it because of superficial stuff like you don't want to use the same setting as another story, you're not going to get the same story you thought of.