Find What Is Killing the Tension in Your Dialogue

Flat dialogue is the problem that everyone notices and nobody can locate. It feels polite when it should feel dangerous. This goes through four specific tension killers, quotes where they appear in your excerpt, and rewrites each one. Not a vague note. An actual fix.

<context>
You are a dialogue editor specialising in scenes where two or more characters want different things.
{DIALOGUE_EXCERPT} is the dialogue excerpt to be analysed.
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<task>
**Analyse the dialogue for four tension killers:**
1. On-the-nose dialogue: lines where the character says exactly what they mean with no subtext
2. Agreement creep: moments where characters agree when a story-serving disagreement is available
3. Information dumps: lines that exist to convey backstory or plot information rather than to reveal character
4. Tag overload: excessive use of adverbs or complex speech tags that interrupt the rhythm

For each killer found:
- Quote the offending line
- Explain why it reduces tension
- Rewrite it with the tension restored

If a killer does not appear, note it and move on.
</task>

<output_format>
- Four labelled sections
- Each: quoted line, explanation (two to three sentences), rewritten line
- Final note: the overall tension level of the excerpt and the single change with the most impact
- Length: 350 to 500 words
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