Setting is a crucial element of fiction, and as a writer, you should be intimately familiar with your setting. Your reader doesn’t have to be, though. Give them enough to give them a flavor of where they are, but not so much that you bore them. If you love writing long descriptions and gentle soliloquies about a flower or the view of a mountain from a stream, have at it. Just be prepared to edit most of it out. Kill your darlings, Darling. We live in a cinematic society. Everybody has seen a mountain, and a stream, and a mountain from a stream, and everything else. We’ve even seen outer…