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My nick is serpentgoddess at the site, send me a PM there.

Yes, you're allowed to have an outline and even some notes - but the notes have to be notes, not chunks of the novel.

I and my husband will be splitting a story between us at 50,000 words each so that we end up at more full-novel-length instead of novella-length. We also have a 10,000-word prologue, but we'll be ignoring that in the nanowrimo word count. It's a separate thing all by itself anyway so we can disregard it while writing the novel.