For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7 make breakfast and go to work. Or come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.
As a young boy I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic...
I knew however that the next morning after the fight I would have to get...
You do have to change things as warfare changes.