How do you make enemies-to-lovers attraction feel earned? Richie Billing takes a deliberately weak romantasy draft and revises it in real time for the Fixing Bad Writing series.
The scene includes a stolen magic sword, a convenient dragon and romantic tension that arrives too quickly. Richie examines shallow conflict, cliché dialogue and rushed attraction, then makes choices designed to give the characters clearer motives.
The original draft was AI-generated for this writing exercise. The audio explains the edits, while the video version shows more of the live revision process.
You’ll discover:
- Why an enemies-to-lovers premise needs genuine conflict.How dialogue can reveal character instead of only flirtation.What to change when attraction feels rushed.How a live redraft can expose weak story choices.
If you write romantasy, use the episode as a prompt to revise a scene of your own.
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Richie Billing hosts Fixing Bad Writing, a series that analyses and revises weak fiction drafts as a craft exercise.
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