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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 1807623" data-attributes="member: 9327">5 months is definitely not too little if you consider the fact that by the time you start writing the first draft of your manuscript, you already have: 1) A one-page detailed synopsis of the story 2) The first three chapters and the killer: 3) A three-sentence decription of every chapter in the story.  One of the biggest killers of writing projects (so I hear) is writer's block: what happens next? If you have the skeleton, you know what happens next.  Let's say you spend five hours each Saturday putting flesh on your skeleton. By the time the deadline rolls around, you will have over 100 hours put into your manuscript. You can easily type 3 pages an hour (a pretty good rate, for me, anyways), giving you a 300 page manuscript. In print, that 300 could easily become 400 (novels aren't printed on A4, you know!) pages, and makes for nice, thick novel.  The point? Start now! Spend a week writing your skeleton and get to work. You have nothing to lose but five hours each Saturday!</blockquote>