There’s a lot of throat-clearing in writing. We often need to write for a little while to get the creative juices flowing and get into a scene (or writing session), and what we write is, well, less than stellar.
Nothing wrong with this, and some people advise writing a page or two in a journal or do a writing prompt before your session just to clear those starter words. But writers aren’t the only ones who can take a while to get to the point—characters can do it, too, especially when they run into each other in a scene.
I’m talking about empty dialogue.
