# Aspiring writer with questions

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**Category:** Writing and Content\
**Tags:** tips, gender\
**Created:** [July 13, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/aspiring-writer-with-questions/139620 "2023-07-13T20:46:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/aspiring-writer-with-questions/139620/6 "2023-07-14T02:17:05Z")

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> [@O0P5](#):
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> When you begin writing a story, do you first write out a full story with no deviations and choices, with a main “cannon” style to flesh things out

Nope. Outline it. Outlining is optional for novelists, but it’s only barely optional for us.

> [@O0P5](#):
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> "don’t"s

Browse this thread: [Disliked Elements, Mechanics, and Tropes](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/disliked-elements-mechanics-and-tropes/9368)

And take absolutely none of it as gospel and do your own thing anyway.

That said,

> [@Omeg](#):
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> - Have a romance option that will literally just kill me (not optional)

Agree. Not optional.

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