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The question is puzzling. If you are composing and you don't know what key you are in, then it's not clear that you are ready to compose. On the other hand, if you are writing music that is not centered in a tonality, then key becomes an irrelevant question.

If you're a student, then just keep writing what sounds and feels right to you, and analyze the work later. Pieces will fall into place.

As a very general rule, you should have a sense of where a line is leading tonally; on what note does the line 'want' to end? As you sing in your head the melody: "Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb. Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow." You can hear that the line wants to end on the note accompanying the word snow. For a simple song, that note will be the tonic of the key the song is in. Since key signatures change from time to time in compositions, this won't be a foolproof way to determine what key the composition is in.

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