Some literary advisors instruct you, as creative writers, to use real places in your fiction. If you’re using a particular location, then get the street names right. If your protagonist catches a bus, then make sure to get the number of the bus right, and its route right, and its destination right. In short, give your readers something they can research and verify. This week on the water But we forget that a description of a place in fiction is not something you’d find in an encyclopaedia. A...