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Read Krapp's Last Tape. It's one of the greatest things Beckett wrote, and is only two pages long.
Heed its warning.
I read your link. Here is what I got from it.
There are three ways to write a novel.
1)Hemingway/Melville: Do stuff, write about it.
2)Kaleidoscope: Study literature at university. Read more novels. Go to writers' workshops. Read yet more novels. Write a million words of juvenilia. Read even more novels. Create mash-up master piece.
3)Irish: Sit in public house, drinking. Write great Irish Novel. How? Miraculously!
Beckett propagandizes against the Irish way, saying "My character, Krapp, tried the Irish way. He tried to helped the miracle along with lots of self-obsession. It worked out badly for him; it will work out badly for you."