In fiction writing, people who don't have any skills or experience often assume they can just sit down and write a novel because they have a cool idea. This is

In fiction writing, people who don't have any skills or experience often assume they can just sit down and write a novel because they have a cool idea. This is never ever the case, regardless of how cool the idea is, because writing a (readable) novel is actually really hard. Source: have written several unreadable novels.