What is setting' in fiction?

What is setting' in fiction?

Russell Celyn Jones (Published writer. Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MA Programme at Birkbeck College (University of London).) gives expert video advice on: What is fiction?; Where does fiction begin?; What is the most important element of fiction? and more...

Setting and landscape in fiction are very important because they reveal character. The landscape or the setting are always subjective; you don't send postcards home in fiction, you describe a landscape in such a way as to reveal something about the characters in it.