Creative non-fiction is about using the craft of fiction to create compelling stories from the raw material of real life, and one of the tools in the fiction-writer’s toolkit is making the most of settings.
One obvious way fiction writers do this is in pathetic fallacy, where the outer world reflects the mood of the character or intensifies the action. How many sad girls have gazed out on the world through windows streaming with rain? How many pursuits and conflicts have been
