Real Life Diagnostics: Can You Feel Any Tension or Conflict in This Scene?

Critique By Maria D'Marco

Real Life Diagnostics is a weekly column that studies a snippet of a work in progress for specific issues. Readers are encouraged to send in work with questions, and we diagnose it on the site. It’s part critique, part example, and designed to help the submitter as well as anyone else having a similar problem.

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This week’s questions:

1. Is it showing vs telling?

2. Can you feel any tension or conflict? 

Market/Genre: Romantic Comedy

On to the diagnosis…
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