

The beat sheet for the trope you actually write
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Fifteen beats. Hostility, forced proximity, fracture, betrayal, surrender. Save the Cat — the structure half of Hollywood swears by — rebuilt for the trope that breaks your readers. Every beat carries an Enemies to Lovers lens note: how that beat usually manifests when your two leads start the book wanting each other dead.
This is the dashboard I built for myself when I got tired of trying to bend a generic three-act outline around a near-kiss midpoint that has to pull *harder* than the one before it. It is opinionated. It is dark. It assumes you know why your protagonist is dangerous before she ever lets him touch her.