As my wife gently pointed out, if one wishes to be a novelist, one must actually have novels to hand. So we’ll give it a shot. On my terms, though; I’m not planning to make a big deal out of it here, I’m not going to get all misty-eyed mystical on the subject, this is all about buckling down and working.
And I refuse to research a damned thing. If real world people or organizations don’t in fact act in the way that I’ll be writing them, well, they should change that immediately.