Throw the ball

Steve Stone, a former major league pitcher who is now a sportscaster, tells of the time when he was pitching in a ballgame and the pitching coach came out to the mound to talk with him. The coach said, "I have a message from your infielders. They're getting bored. Throw the ball."
Stone said it was the best advice he ever got. The problem was he was taking too much time between pitches, causing his fielders to stand around, shuffling their feet and not being as alert and attentive as they should have been.
When you're writing, you are the pitcher. Your readers are the infielders. Your story is the ball they should be ready to catch when it's hit to them. Unless of course they get bored.
Keep the game moving. It's all right to fill in your story with description and details but not to the point of leaving your readers shuffling their feet, waiting for something to happen.
Dorothy Garlock, nationally-known historical fiction writer, puts it this way. "Sooner or later, you have to burn down the barn."
Author Martin Yoseloff cautioned against loading sentences and paragraphs with too much information, likening it someone trying to make their way through a room where there's just too much furniture.
Throw the ball.