Who are you? S.A. CheckWhat genre/s do you write in? Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Adventure
Why do you write? There are worlds outside of our perceptions. Places where magic is alive and heroes find homes. An escape from the harsh reality of living and a corner where our imaginations are kept safeguarded. What is a portal other than a conduit, the turn of a page, letting go of the rules to believe in something we’re otherwise taught can’t exist. We’ve all allowed ourselves to become lost in a book, a story, a movie and let that reality become our own, even for the briefest of times. It’s there, in those small moments that we allow fantasy to reflect into reality, that as authors we are given the privilege of building worlds to capture a reader’s imagination and attempt to hold on long enough to leave them with something more than when they started. And if it can change a perception or add to a perspective, then we’ve accomplished something worthwhile.
Planner or Panster? I love to outline. I enjoy it and write up some mad freehand notes while I do it. Computers are great and I’m certainly never giving up my laptop but the outlining process is the one time in the evolution of a story that I feel I gain more from sitting down and penning out where I want my book to go. I can draw arrows and scribble notes in margins and feel the process more organically when I hand write my ideas. All that said, I certainly never let myself become a slave to the outline and during the writing process, if I feel the story is pushing itself in another direction, I gladly follow.
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Upcoming releases? My sci-fi/fantasy/adventure, Welcome To GreenGrass, is coming out December of 2013 via Necro Publications/Bedlam Press – www.necropublications.com
Latest release? I contributed a short story, Tangled Lines, to a charity anthology, Hazard Yet Forward, available at Amazon.
Personal Bio: S.A. Check lives and writes from south-western PA. A product of a coal patch town that filled the days of his youth with adventures exploring abandoned mine shafts, swimming in ponds, and having winter bonfires in desolated coke ovens. When he was eleven, on a metal rack in the lawn and garden section of a local supermarket, he discovered comic books. It was in the pages of these illustrated short tales that he became fascinated with the heroic and absurd and inadvertently began learning about story arcs and characterization, cliff hangers and conundrums. Novels were soon to follow. The wonderful worlds of Robert Aspirin and Terry Pratchett fueled a desire to create worlds of his own and stayed with him while earning an English/Writing degree at Penn State University. Eventually the tales he cherished from his youth found their way back to his desire to give something to readers, a small difference in a big world.
