Writing Novels: If you don’t think like the novelists discussed in this blog, should you even try to write a novel?

In a post last year—search “Where I’m Coming From”—I gave half the story of how I came to write this blog. The other half is that I was planning a novel.

There were two main characters, a woman and a man. The woman was a feminist bioengineer; the man, a psychiatrist. The story was to have been, first, about her secret project to change humanity; second, about their relationship; and third, about his interest in multiple personality and literature, which might have been used as comic relief.

However, the more I have learned about how novelists think and how novels are actually written, the more futile I think it would be for me to make the attempt. I could do it, but I doubt that it would be the real thing.

Are there any great novelists who do not think like the novelists discussed in this blog? If you know of any, please tell me.