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There are no rules in writing. Full stop. There is nothing that you need to do or need not do at any point of your work unless you feel that it is necessary.

Getting published is a slightly different story, but this is a question about writing.

Write how you want, when you want, and cause the elements of your work to develop solely as you see fit.

So long as you are writing then you are succeeding.

Most (I would say all) of the truly great writing is the world is found in works that bend, break, and flaunt the common rules of writing.

If you write how you desire you will not always succeed, but when you do succeed you will do so wildly.

TL;DR: No.

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