“my range which consists of mostly premiums, which i would be checking behind on a flop this dry most of the time. “

Think about why this is. Betting should definitely be the vacuum play, so if you’re choosing to check behind, presumably it’s because you expect your opponent to fold very often. In other words, you’re making an exploitive check, so why not make some exploitive bluffs too? Do you really think V is going to say “he’d check KK here so since he’s betting he must have a weak hand therefore I can check-raise him with my T9s”? What exactly are you afraid will go wrong if you bet flop?

That said, I like the turn/river play.

When I say go wrong, I mean what hands do you think will fold the turn but not the flop? This is the thing I’m encouraging you to think more deeply about it, instead of just playing on feel until something unexpected happens and then having no idea what to do next. When you say “more respect”, translate that into specific behaviors with specific hands. I call this having a target for a bluff, in my bluffing series (though on the flop you aren’t even really bluffing, even though you’d prefer a fold to a call – you are mostly betting to lock up your equity with a hand that is probably ahead but isn’t going to play well on future streets.)