One of your first considerations when writing a story should be setting. Where is it set? Does the location change or do your characters stay in one place? Is it set in nature or indoors? How do your characters travel?
Start by answering these questions. It can be useful to set out your characters journey with a quick sketch. For example, here is the one I did for my Little Red Riding Hood story:
Once you have your rough outline, go into detail on each location. You should know your location as well as you know your characters. Make sure you keep track of where things are - if your character moves a phone, make sure someone else doesn't pick it up again from the original place
You might want to have a rough sketch like the one above and then more sketches of the inside of the houses, etc. even if it's just where the rooms are. Of course, for some locations this might not be so important - I don't go into much detail about Little Red Riding Hood's house because she leaves it at the beginning of the story, but I do have detailed descriptions of all the other locations.
If you don't want to sketch certain locations, for example the forest, make sure you write a detailed list of descriptions about it. What time of day is it? What can you'd character see, hear, smell, etc? What kind of trees are there? What colours are they? Is it summer, spring, autumn or winter? How light is it? If you have a strong sense of setting, your character will feel like they are there too!
Happy writing!
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