Science Daily reports Assoc. Prof. Anne Mangen's observations on handwriting: "The process of reading and writing involves a number of senses, she explains. When writing by hand, our brain receives feedback from our motor actions, together with the sensation of touching a pencil and paper. These kinds of feedback is significantly different from those we receive when touching and typing on a keyboard."
Her research was primarily concerned with how we learn, but it seems to me that this could also relate to writing. If you feel like a scene isn't coming alive, try switching from typing it to writing it by hand.
(There are lot of writing tips in "Your Writing Coach," published by Nicholas Brealey and available from Amazon and other online and offline booksellers.)
