lioncourt

@lioncourt@lioncourt.social

Author📖, musician🎹, podcaster🎙, software dev🖥, Masters of the Universe fan⚔️, coffee roaster☕️, hockey fan🏒, Trekkie🖖🏽, feminist🦸‍♀️, blind👨🏻‍🦯, #UU #UnitarianUniversalist💜 [he/him]

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lioncourt, to StarTrek

I love that this exists. – Proposal for Code 🖖🏾 http://www.cbtbc.org/braille/klingon/

lioncourt, to writing

19. If you could remove one rule of grammar, which would you choose?
This one is easy for me. I would remove the optionality of the Oxford comma. IMO, the Oxford comma should always be used. I am aware this is a controversial topic, although I cannot, for the life of me, understand why.

lioncourt, to writing

17. What aspects of your life do you bring into your ?
Like most writers, there are few aspects of my life that don't eventually make it into my stories. Since I write , allegory and analogy are the most common ways they appear in my work, but there are times when it’s more direct—like Emily's love of hockey in my Dragon's Brood series. Here's Emily, drawn by Leanne Hannah, as she appears before and after entering the Haven.

Emily, after arriving int he Haven, in native garb and holding her crystal sword.

lioncourt, to writing

14. What's the biggest edit You've ever needed to make to your work?
About halfway through HAVEN DIVIDED, the second volume of my DRAGON’S BROOD CYCLE series, I realized a subplot I had planned to be part of book 3 really would work better in book 2. I stopped there and went back and start weaving it in to the earlier parts of the book. It made for a much better novel in the end.

lioncourt, to writing

13. Do you write to a specific word count, or do you let the story dictate the length?
The story nearly always dictates the length, although there have been times when I've been targeting a word-count range. Even in that latter case, if the story demanded more or fewer words, I'd yield to the story; it—and by extension the characters—are master. I am only a humble scribe. 😉

lioncourt, to random

7. What's your favourite book? Why?
This is an impossible question—both because I read so widely and some books are too different to compare. If a book moves me, it ranks higher. Some faves in no particular order: THE VAMPIRE LESTAT (Anne Rice), WIZARD AND GLASS (Stephen King), UNFOLLOW (Megan Phelps-Roper), THE THIRTEENTH TALE (Diane Setterfield), JANE EYRE (Charlotte Bronte), THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (Mark Twain). I could go on forever.

lioncourt, to random

5. What genre is your ?
I write Fantasy in all its various permutations. It's hard to imagine stepping out of that genre, although I ponder it from time to time. To be fair, my definition of what constitutes Fantasy is broader than most writers’. I understand, but dislike, the hyper-categorization of genres these days. My favorite books to read (and write) tend to be those that combine elements of more than one.

lioncourt, to random

28. How do you approach a fight scene or other high-action scenes?
It depends on how the scene develops. Most fight/action scenes tend to grow organically from the circumstances, sometimes catching me by surprise. I just let those roll and then revise them a few times once they’re written to heighten the tension/excitement. Planning action scenes in advance rarely goes well for me; they end up feeling inauthentic and get scrapped.

lioncourt, to writing

16. What ancillary writing apps do you find the most useful?
My primary writing app is Scrivener (macOS/iPadOS), which is such an amazing app that I don’t have a lot of use for ancillary writing apps. Drafts (macOS/iPadOS/iOS) is my default scratchpad for notes and ideas that don’t have anywhere else to go (among other things). I occasionally use MindNode (iPadOS) to plan complex scenes or plot elements.

lioncourt, to random

It’s hard for me to believe that after nearly twenty years, some blind Windows users are still waging the Mac vs Windows war. Use the tools that work for you and let others do the same. There’s enough misery and drama in the world without manufacturing it.

lioncourt, to books

12. Do you prefer to write on a desktop, laptop, typewriter, pen and paper, quill and parchment, blood and stone?
All my work is written on either an iPad or MacBook. Being blind, pen/paper wouldn’t really work for me, and as much as I love , I absolutely hate writing it; that goes for any kind of writing, from text messages to novels. Give me a QWERTY keyboard any day.

lioncourt, to random

This cover of Elton John’s Sacrifice is my favorite Sinead O’Connor performance. 💚 🎵 https://youtu.be/FWa-aMiqQKE

lioncourt,

@sharonecathcart Brings me to tears every time. Always has.

lioncourt,

@sharonecathcart I originally bought that CD because, apart from being a fan of Elton, I’m a lifelong, diehard George Michael fan. His performance of Tonight was also stunning. At the time I wasn’t very familiar with Sinead O’Connor, but I fell in love with that performance. I listened to both of those tracks endlessly at the time, and still play them often. Two beautiful souls lost far too soon.

lioncourt, to random

🔖 And incredibly accessible with VoiceOver, too. – Mona: A Unique Mix of Customization Options and Features You Won’t Find in Any Other Mastodon App - MacStories https://www.macstories.net/reviews/mona-a-unique-mix-of-customization-options-and-features-you-wont-find-in-any-other-mastodon-app/

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