A problem in a lot of modern fiction

[SheilaT]

13. I have been reading a moderate amount of YA

fiction lately, precisely because so much of it is, in my opinion, really good.

However, more than once all of a sudden it will feel as if the plot or characters was drawn from some kind of novel-writing software. There's just a kind of creepy formula aspect that I'm having trouble articulating. In one particular book, it was as if the software said, if you have this kind of character you must have this other kind. Now, I've never myself looked at, let alone made use of, novel-writing software, and as a semi-creative person myself, I am highly suspicious of such things.