It drags, it runs and disappears
When you expect that event least
When having fun time bids all fears
Vanish too but its heavy price
Is to race when you want time slow
Usually when life is being nice
It drags when life is just so-so.
Characters need to react to time too in how they manage it, how they regret wasting it and whether they find it dictating to them (that is, are they elderly and the ravages of time have taken their toll to name one example).
Changes of season equal changes of mood
Changes of clothes, even changes of food.
Do your stories show this as the tale unfolds?
Or is background “static”, always on hold?
Setting can make a story and it has to be portrayed well enough so your readers can “see it” themselves. The best example I can think of is Mordor in The Lord of the Rings. Setting needs to have its constituent parts too - weather, climate, the habits of the natives (wildlife and otherswise), how the government is run, what people do for a living and so on. The information needs to be drip fed. You want the nuggets of information to be welcomed by your reader so they build up a knowledge of how your world works.