This is my first novel. "That Woman" was written during National Write a Novel in a Month (NaNoWriMo) this past November (2013) The point of the contest is to take any outline one has had for however long and to write a rough draft of it during the month of November. 50,000 words are expected for a minimum so it's not as bad as it seems. With outline in hand, 500 words an hour is not hard or unusual. Finding 3-4 hours a day to just write is the hard part.