Fixing Bad Romantasy Writing: Enemies to Lovers Edition | Fixing Bad Writing
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Richie Billing deconstructs and edits a weak enemies-to-lovers romantasy story in real time, addressing common writing pitfalls.
For the full video experience, please watch on YouTube > https://www.youtube.com/@fixingbadwriting In this episode of The Fantasy Writers’ Toolshed, Richie Billing takes on a terrible enemies-to-lovers romantasy story and tries to fix it in real time. Expect bad fantasy romance, stolen magic swords, awkward romantic tension, a suspiciously convenient dragon and a practical look at how to make popular tropes work on the page. This is Episode 2 of Fixing Bad Writing, a writing craft series where Richie deconstructs a weak story draft, explains why it fails, edits it live, then presents a stronger redraft. This time, he steps outside his dark fantasy comfort zone to tackle one of the biggest tropes in romantasy: enemies to lovers. Romantasy might look simple from the outside. Put two attractive enemies in danger, add forced proximity, give them sharp dialogue and surely the chemistry will take care of itself. But good fantasy romance needs more than insults, cheekbones and “kissing probably happening soon”. It needs genuine conflict, believable character motivation, emotional friction and a reason for attraction to grow. Using a deliberately awful AI-generated romantasy draft…
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