Ten Rules in Ten Days - Rule 9: Don't go into great detail describing places and things.

Unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

There has to be description. Without description you have nothing but dialogue and stage direction. Gray figures in a gray background. But it has to be balanced. The problem is that new writers either omit it altogether, or give a big info dump, describing every thing in excruciating detail.

Description consists of sight, sound, smell,...