I suppose the truth is no one is going to tell you how to write a novel but people can give you ideas, hints and thoughts. Start filling your walls with things of your life. Each one holds a memory, a time in your life where you did something and every time you look at it you think of that moment and the people associated with it. You create a wall of stories.
Start a journal if you haven't already, sometimes the best stories are your own.
Why should you listen to me? No reason. Except I'm trying to learn too.
Below are some ways that other people begin writing:
The Snowflake Method. If you're just starting here is a good place to start with your ideas for you novel. They have these awesome exercises that are seriously so good and get your "creative juices" going.
Storyboarding is another idea that people use and is mostly used in the film industry but can also be used for novel writing. I like it. Although I'd personally be using post it notes on my whiteboard.
Someone's idea of plotting. It's pretty good and simple. I like it because it's got your key points and you can see the flow of it in most novels.
Buy a book like Little Red Writing Book or Bird by Bird and just indulge yourself in the words of their wisdom. (Hey they obviously wrote a book!)
Start a blog. Who cares if no one reads it! You're writing!
Lastly I would just say, look at your time management, is there anything that you do that you go
"Wow, I spend about 2 hours on that and really that's a waste of time, I could just spend 1 hour" to which you then realise that if you put an hour away a day for a year that 365 hours and you could become a master at something. Wow. Think about where you time is going...
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