I have decided to start trying to write a novel.  I did not know how hard of a tasks this would be.
What type of novel are you wanting to write?
I am writing a detective novel.  It is kind of a throwback to those old detective noir stories I used to read.
Maybe try reading some famous detective fiction like Sherlock Holmes to help!
I love Sherlock Holmes!  Do you know when his novels first came out?
stories in "The Strand Magazine", beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891; additional tales appeared from then until 1927, eventually totalling four novels and 56 short stories. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 1880 and 1914. Most are narrated by the character of Holmes's friend and biographer Dr. Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him at the address of 221B Baker Street, London, where many of the stories begin.
asked many times over the years why he did not write another novel after "The Thin Man". I do not know. I think, but I only think, I know a few of the reasons: he wanted to do a new kind of work; he was sick for many of those years and getting sicker. But he kept his work, and his plans for work, in angry privacy and even I would not have been answered if I had ever asked, and maybe because I never asked is why