How to write a novel...(The Secrets)

So you want to know how to write a novel? The secrets behind writing a novel everyone wants to read and talk about for years to come.

You will read, "You have to read your genre and what everyone's doing..."

Go away. No you don't. Because there are so many indie authors out there, whose style is right and whose style is wrong?

You have to devote X amount of hours to writing...

Says who? The