Do you have a scene with too much dialogue? #writetip End up with an empty stage?

An easy way to remedy this situation, for me anyway, is to keep a list of objects in every scene. If I don’t have a single object, I get suspicious of the scene. This pushes me to analyze it and see if it’s barren. It gives me the opportunity to add description into the scene after I’ve written too heavily on dialogue or action.

After a first draft it’s fun to go back and put in objects that are used later in the novel. A little foreshadowing to keep things interesting.