The Vomit Method: How I Write a Book in 15 Days

The Method Nobody Taught Me

I never learned formal writing techniques. I tried YouTube storyboarding — couldn't do it. I'm a bad visualiser. So at 19, broke and desperate, I invented my own method.

I called it The Vomit Method.

How It Works

1. Write one A4 page. Summarise your entire story as densely as you can. If you can write one page, you can stretch it to 350.
2. Build the skeleton. Every story needs: a protagonist, an antagonist, side characters, and settings. I created reusable templates — 15-20 main character archetypes, 50-100 side character types, settings across India, Europe, and the US.
3. Mix and match. Take a beach. Add a mountain. Both? Fine. Need a murder? Need a love triangle? Need a god descending from the heavens? Slot them in. Everything else is masala.
4. Write without stopping. Don't edit. Don't second-guess. Don't look back. Get the words on the page. Revision is a separate phase.

The Output

Using this method, I could write a complete book — 250 to 300 pages — in 15 days.

Working hours: 20+ hours a day. Sleeping 2-3 hours. No clock in the workroom — I only knew what time it was when I stepped outside. Continuous 40-hour stretches were normal.

Why It Works

The Vomit Method works because it separates creation from judgement. When you're vomiting words onto the page, you're not evaluating them. You're not deciding if this sentence is good enough. You're not comparing yourself to anyone. You're just producing.

The quality comes later, in revision. But you can't revise what doesn't exist.

The Results

Using this method between ages 19 and 25, I wrote over 100 books across every genre — horror, thriller, romance, fantasy, self-help, literary fiction. The method didn't care about genre. It cared about output.

68 of those books are now published and readable on this website. The other 1,400+ remain in the archive, each one a practice rep that made the next book better.

The Vomit Method is not elegant. It's not sophisticated. But it produced 2.6 million published words and counting.

— From the desk of Atharva Inamdar, March 2026