You've studied the story you're working on and found ways to mirror and echo things that have happened before. Many forms of fiction have rigid and restrictive rules on how the stories are told. But there are stories in these genres that are wonderful. Think on this. Formulas are as rigid as you let them be. Sometimes you can step beyond these rules. When I wrote Murder and Mint Tea, I knew who would be murdered but I didn't know who the villain would be. I set about th tell first the impact the murdered character had on the neighborhood. I've had criticisms about the murder not happening until more than half way through the story. But this story first published in 1998 is still one of my best selling manusctipts.
Formulas and accepting external guidelines is important but so is not being afrain to turn the formulas around,
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