A great many amateur screenwriters spend a lot of time making sure their format is right, their dialogue is sharp, their script focuses on a big idea, their characters are unique and lively. And then they completely forget to write interesting, novel action-descriptions. They forget to write with a voice... the reason they probably got into writing in the first place...

-- "Fatal Mistakes: Boring Action-Descriptions"

... read the article and the comments, its great stuff. Although it made me realise how much my writing ability has degraded because I've been willingly gutless.