How A Single Mother Of Three Finished Her First Novel In 14 Days, And The Planning Mistake She Says Most Authors Make

Lindsay Lake used to sit down at her laptop in the evenings and stare at a blank screen.

She had wanted to be a romance novelist since she was about 16. The ideas were all there in her head, but when she tried to put them on paper, the words came out wrong. She would write a few chapters, rewrite them, edit them, lose patience and start again from page one.

In her words, "starting over became my painful routine."

If you have ever opened an old file and found the same first chapter written four different ways, you know exactly how that feels. What Lindsay did about it is the reason I'm writing this.

Her husband left, and she had three children to support on her own

At the time, Lindsay was working a job she hated and writing on the side. Then her husband told her he was leaving her for another woman and moving out of state.

For months she just got through each day, working and looking after her kids, too tired and too low to write a single line.

One afternoon her parents took the children out for the day. Lindsay was lying on the couch in a quiet, empty house when it hit her that nobody else was in charge of her life. She could give up on writing for good, or find out once and for all what it really takes to write fiction people want to read.

She chose the second one.

Every writing book she read told her what to do, and none of them showed her how

Lindsay spent weeks reading everything she could find about how successful authors work. She noticed that the advice all sounded the same, and that it made writing a novel seem very hard, so she kept digging.

Then one morning, while she was driving her kids to school, all of it came together in her head.

That night she opened a brand new document and started typing the plot she had been carrying around all day.

She says that in 14 days she had a finished novel. Ten weeks later, she says, it was climbing the top seller charts, and before long she had left her day job to write full time.

She is careful to point out that her speed suits some kinds of books better than others:

She named it after a storm because of what happens to your ideas

Lindsay calls her approach The Hurricane Method. She says that once you use it, ordinary ideas start spinning like a storm, and you end up with pages and pages of story you can actually use.

She has since written Private Seduction, part of her romance series Hideaway of Desires, along with more than 50 other books under pen names as a contract writer. People began writing to her blog asking her to mentor them, and The Hurricane Method is her answer to all of them.

Inside, she walks you through a set of techniques she has named herself. A few of them:

• The Clarity Momentum Formula, which she built to get rid of writer's block so the words keep coming.
• The Fruition Tree, her way to put together a novel outline quickly. She calls it the single reason she could finish a whole first draft in 14 days, and it is how she gets around the one planning mistake she says most authors make.
• The Character Design Pyramid, for characters so memorable that they stay in the reader's mind.
• The Seesaw Dialog Technique, which shows you how to carry emotion, story and conflict through what your characters say.
• The Tidal Wave Technique, for the day your story stops moving and you can't see where it goes next.
• The Blurb Generator, for the few lines on a book's back cover that make a browser want to read it.

Romance is her favourite, and the program also covers sci fi, crime and fantasy, with help from award-winning author friends she brought in for those genres.

Along with the main e-book you get four bonuses. There's a complete audio edition you can listen to in the car or on a walk, and Sensual Storytelling, on planning and turning up the passion in a romance. There's also a report on How To Make Money On Kindle Self Publishing, which covers getting your book out there and marketing it, and a report on How To Create Dynamic & Engaging Characters.

• Complete Audio Edition
• Sensual Storytelling
• Kindle Self Publishing
• Dynamic & Engaging Characters

You get 60 days to try it, and your money back if it isn't for you

The Hurricane Method is $47, one payment, and it's an instant download, so you can start reading tonight.

It comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee. Work through it, try the techniques on your own story, and if you decide it isn't for you, one email gets you a full refund.

See What’s Inside The Hurricane Method → Opens Lindsay Lake’s page on the official Hurricane Method site.

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