Heh, I suggested this topic in the hopes of getting some ideas/tips, because I am really struggling with this particular issue lately. I feel like I'm in danger of becoming very repetitive with my descriptions. I find myself describing the characters' small facial movements (raising an eyebrow, smiling, frowning) or little actions ("He sipped his coffee...") a lot more than really seems to benefit the scene, but otherwise I don't have much else to describe or to break up the back-and-forth of the dialogue ... I end up with nothing but a series of he said/she said attribution tags.
Possibly this is a sign that I need more going on in my dialogue scenes than just dialogue. I've been ending up lately with a lot of scenes in which characters sit around and talk. *muses* I wonder if I could have the same dialogue exchanges take place while they're doing something more active.
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Date: 2011-09-18 09:18 am (UTC)From:Possibly this is a sign that I need more going on in my dialogue scenes than just dialogue. I've been ending up lately with a lot of scenes in which characters sit around and talk. *muses* I wonder if I could have the same dialogue exchanges take place while they're doing something more active.