Editing Research/Fiction Writing/Story Beats Prompts (section)

== 12. Genre beat overlay prompt: romance ==
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Audit this manuscript as a romance or romantic subplot.

Map:
- Initial worlds and wounds of both leads
- Meet/collision
- Reason they cannot be together
- Forced proximity or recurring contact
- Early attraction
- First vulnerability
- Midpoint intimacy, kiss, commitment illusion, or emotional recognition
- Retreat/fear/external pressure
- Dark moment / breakup / apparent impossibility
- Internal choice that makes love possible
- Grand gesture or proof of change
- Earned union or chosen separation

Evaluate:
- Are obstacles internal as well as external?
- Do both leads change?
- Does attraction progress through action and vulnerability, not just description?
- Is the dark moment caused by character wounds/choices?
- Is the ending earned by changed behavior?

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