When I started writing in 2011, it never occurred to me that eventually I would start being concerned about writing to a formula. In fact, being concerned about writing to a formula is one of the reasons why I stopped writing novels.
Just take, for instance, the way Poirot stories end with the collection together of the witnesses/suspects in this tale so that the detective Hercule Poirot can name the perpetrators. The writer of the TV series set in the Caribbean, Death in Paradise, has actually employed a similar conclusion for each episode.
If you are fortunate enough to have
gathered the following it may be because of the security that your writing
formula has generated in their minds, so not altogether a bad thing. However, I
found that writing to a formula can also make you lazy, and even as the
writer, it can become boring, and so I gave up writing novels A while ago now.
That doesn’t mean to say I would
never go back to it, but I would actually quite like to do something a little
different. So enjoy your writing and even enjoy your success with whatever
formula, if you have a formula you use, but keep your mind open to alternatives. I did break away from the Steele formula after 5 stories and wrote Cessation.
