LOL, Julie!
I have the exact opposite problem to Sara. Dialogue comes to me fairly easily, but often I don't have a strong sense of where my characters are, what they're doing with their hands, and so on. So out comes a stream of dialogue with a sprinkling of internal thought. Then it occurs to me that this scene might be a whole lot more realistic if I got them to move around a bit while they're talking. But what to make them do? Well, the number of times my characters end up making coffee in the kitchen has to be seen to be believed.
But once I've figured out what they're doing, I don't have much problem describing it. The trick is to intersperse the actions with the dialogue or thoughts. I mean, that's pretty much what you do in real life, after all.
Yvonne
