# Reverse engineering a story

**URL:** <https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/reverse-engineering-a-story/422>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 31, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/reverse-engineering-a-story/422 "2015-08-31T22:18:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jerome](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/jerome/32/202_2.png) [@Jerome](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/Jerome)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/reverse-engineering-a-story/422/10 "2015-09-03T22:51:30Z")

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> [@Stephen](#):
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> You suggested to condense my story into a short synopsis and present it with the chosen story form. If I read this right, does that mean that I do a synopsis with an answer to the 8 of the 12 essential questions?

Yes. I did [the same recently](http://discuss.dramatica.com/t/looking-for-thoughts-opinions-on-my-storyform-settings/417) and found it to be immensely helpful.

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