About Amber Dalcourt
When times got tough I had always joked: “I’ll just have to become a Best-Selling Author!” I had never taken the comment seriously until I found that I was actually doing research on the process. The effort involved seemed daunting at first and the possibility of making a legitimate living as a Novelist seemed slim. Only Time will tell. If it was easy, everyone would do it! I supose at some point everyone at least tries…
I’ve one Published short story under my belt, whose name I forget and I assure you it’s name is fairly irrelevant. If I can locate that ONE copy out there it WILL cease to exist. The point here is that it does exist.
I’ve been writing short stories as of the age of 12. I’ve always enjoyed the small leaps into my imagination, using them as an escape for the otherwise mundane existence of everyday life. By 14, I’ve had several fan-based web publications that were highly revered, though I found the writing experience rather unfulfilling. It was a real waste using some perfectly good ideas and some great characters on work that I could never really claim as my own. So I turned to creating my own work.
By 17, I had the first half of one novel complete. Unfortunately with questions of where the story was heading and College fast approaching and I was forced to put the manuscript down. At 19, I was encouraged to take up writing again and over the course of three years I had yet another half of a novel complete (It would have been too easy if it was the other half of the first Novel). Yet I felt that the story shouldn’t start where I had. In all account it was a fairly good beginning and was adequate for the beginning of THAT novel, which forced me to backtrack into my current work in progress.
Now that I’m half way through this once more, I’m dreading the idea that I might have to backtrack again. Luckily, for the first time, I feel that the story has begun at the right time, at the right place, with the right elements. Sure there’s plenty of story that happened before hand, but is it necessary for me to tell? I don’t think so.
Now it’s just a matter of making it to the finish line!
