@JimBeam There was a professor at the university who taught classes on how to write novels using a formula. I don’t know how many people took that class but it was offered for more than a decade. More than one local resident became successful writing romance novels under pen names. One woman published at least 30. The same formula could also be used for Westerns and other types of novels. I should have taken his class. I could have worked at home and saved myself a lot of stress all those years had I become successful. This professor had written a couple of novels that became the basis for movies—-The Apple Dumpling Gang and Baker’s Hawk, he had written 75 novels.