: Re: I have too much dialogue, how do I add more description? I was looking at the last book I wrote. In it, I failed to meet the word count I had set for myself by a big margin, like 40,000

If you want to focus on dialogue and add description, describe the dialogue. Describe how they talk, including their body language and movements as they talk, and how the other character(s) listen.

When there's two characters with different enough voices and/or points of view it's tempting to just have a page of dialogue without anything more than the first "she said". Find long chunks like this and work on breaking them up and enriching them with more detail. You (probably) don't want people to feel they're reading a dry transcript.

Describing every line is too much unless the conversation is very slow and measured, or important, but that's the opposite problem to yours.

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