Write a novel in a month: The 2006 status.

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No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days (2004) by Chris Baty.

Everyone's a winner - well, a lot of people - all those that write a 50,000-word novel in November - National Novel Writing Month:

Status? What status?

Day.	Hours written.	Word count reached.	Word Of The Day from OED.	Definition adapted from Oxford English Dictionary.
1	2	1700	belong.	1. To go along with, or accompany. 2. To pertain, concern. 3. To be the property or rightful possession of; or a property or attribute of. 4. To be connected with or to form a part or appendage of.
2	2	3k	myogenic.	1. Forms muscle or muscle fibers. 2. Originating in or produced by muscle tissue.
3	3.5	5k	compact.	Closely packed or knit together; dense, solid, firm. Of language or style or writer: Condensed, terse, pithy.
4	3.5	7k	snore.	To make harsh or noisy sounds in sleep by breathing through the open mouth or through the mouth and nose.
5	3	9K	manurance.	Tenure, occupation (of land or other property). Cultivation of land; cultivation or training of the character or faculties.
6 (Monday)	1	10K	maduro.	The darkest grade of color that classifies a cigar.
7	1.5	12K	gazillion.	A very large and indefinite number or quantity.
8	1.5	12.5K	irremovable.	Not removable; permanent. Incapable of being moved. One who cannot be removed; one whose position is permanent.
9	2	13K	headcase.	A person whose behavior is violent and unpredictable, or markedly eccentric. Also a nut case.
10	1.5	14K	rocket.	[From F. roquette from It. ruchetta (dim. of ruca from Latin for cabbage).] Common name for many a cruciferous plant (e.g. Eruca sativa, Hesperis matronalis (sweet-scented after dark and beautiful), English water cresses or rocket water cresses). Also a butterfly Mancipium Daplidice.
11	2	15K	marsupialize.	"To convert (a cyst, abscess, or other cavity) into a pouch by making a permanent wide opening to the exterior." [From OED's Word Of The Day.]
12	2	17K	grade.	Includes: To arrange or place in grades or classes. To colour with shades that merge into each other. To reduce the line of a road, railway, or canal. To wear away the surface of something, producing a regular slope. To read and mark a paper with a grade.
13 (Monday)	1	20K	errant.	I. Itinerant, traveling. II. In senses of ARRANT 2-6, thief. Thoroughgoing, unmitigated. III. Straying, wandering, erring. 'Astray, wandering, roving' [From OED's Word Of The Day.] Erring in opinion, conduct; deviating from the correct standard.
14	0	20K	sandboard.	A board or tray sprinkled with sand in which symbols can be traced and then obliterated. Also a long narrow board on which a rider may coast down sand dunes.
15	1	21K	sneakernet.	The transfer of data by physical (rather than electronic means).
16	1.7	20K	stum.	Unfermented or partly fermented grape-juice, must, especially where fermentation has been prevented or arrested by fumigation with sulphur. Sometimes used for renewing vapid wines (or occasionally apple-juice). Vapid wine renewed by the mixture of stum.
17	1	23K	s'more.	A sweet snack of toasted marshmallows and chocolate sandwiched between graham crackers.
18	1	27K	Machairodus.	[From scientific Latin Machairodus from ancient Greek MACHAIRA n. + tooth (-ODONT).] A genus of sabre-toothed fossil cat or lion.
19	1	28K	punctate.	Marked or studded with points or dots. Having or coming to a definite point.
20 (Monday)	1	28.5K	cavolo nero.	[From Italian cavolo nero, 'black kale'.] "Hardy variety of kale with dark green leaves, used chiefly in Tuscan cookery; also called black cabbage, black kale." [From OED's Word Of The Day.]
21	2.7	30.5K	booze, boose.	Drink; a draught; alcoholic drink. Drinking or a bout of drinking.
22	0	30.5K	underwood.	"Small trees or shrubs, coppice-wood or brush-wood, growing beneath higher timber trees" [from OED's Word Of The Day]. Without natural thinning by fire and without harvesting, underwood is sometimes reduced by prescribed burn. Also the wood underlying a veneer.
23	1	32K	bootylicious	Of rap lyrics, 'bad'. Good-looking in a curvy way.
24	2	43K	craggy.	Characterized by crags; steep and rugged; hard, rough; difficult, perilous.
25	1.0	43K	outstander.	Someone or something that outstands; a dissenter.
26	1.5	44.5K	Romanist.	Adherent of the Church of Rome; a Roman Catholic (n.). Belonging or adhering to the Church of Rome (adj.). Practitioner of Roman Law (n.). Student of Roman antiquities (n.). In-depth student of Romance languages (n.).
27 (Monday)	1	44.8K	?
28	1.5	50K	smash.	A hard or heavy blow; (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a hard and fast overhand volley. A loud sound of breaking or crushing; a violent collision or impact. A crushing defeat. A great success
29	x	50K-plus	gagging (not us, baby).	Restricting open debate or preventing disclosure of information.
30	x	50K-plus	hence. I. Of place: Away from here; elsewhere. II. Of time: From this time onward. III. Of issue, result, consequence: From this, as a source or origin; or resulting from this fact or circumstance.	The light, the light! And I am hence from here, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Plus a gift of Vosges chocolate bars (thanks Bev and Kat!) to celebrate the being done.

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No Plot? No Problem!:
A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days (2004)
by Chris Baty.