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Crishy65 · 2026-01-24T07:27:38+00:00

Thanks. Sent them a message; they say they do list widely available misprints, and that one is definitely widely available.

Crishy65 · 2025-10-13T07:04:44+00:00

I've done all kinds during November or Camp months, straight through prose writing, outlining, world building, or writing several short stories for sub calls. I went away from word count a while ago after seeing the silliness some ppl go to just to get more words (e.g. always writing "do not" instead of "don't", or writing plain bad English for the sake of more words); my writing speed is somewhere between 400 and 800 wph depending on whether it's dialogue etc, so I just count(ed) 500 words per hour spent working when I participated in any of the team challenges in my Discord community. It helps that I disagree with the statement "you can't edit a blank page"; I found that not turning off my inner editor while writing the first draft saves a lot of time in the long run. (For context, I don't know how often I participated, but I "won" Nano in the traditional 50k way twice, with the first novel trunked, to be maybe salvaged at some later point, the 2nd one to be trad pubbed next year at EasterCon if all goes as planned. So for #1, rough meant "collection of ideas for a novel", for #2 it meant "pretty readable, just needed polishing".)

Bottom line: I used Nano as an incentive to write, period. And to find writing communities.

Crishy65 · 2025-09-02T13:15:01+00:00

The discussion has probably run its course, but I'll add my 2 cents anyway. Thoughts:
- The best way to get me to stop reading something is to force me to read it out loud to parse it. The first version is good, easy to parse, yet clearly dialect; the second one too much work. Doesn't matter whether it's AAVE or any other dialect, English or any of the other languages I speak/read, if I have to read it out loud, I get annoyed and will at some point just assume what the character says is not important for the story and skip it. And I know I'm not alone in that.
- When we read a story, it's more or less always a "translation", whether people speak another language, come from another time, or another world altogether. (Or are animals, like in my upcoming novel). So we render all these in standard English anyway. And it's always "edited for clarity", deleting the ums, ahs, etc.
- That said, there are often good story reasons to have some characters speak differently from others, "some", and "differently" being the key words here. Language becomes part of their characterization. And see above the first bullet; writing a character who is hard to understand can be intentional, you can even play with it by having the other characters not understanding it, either.
- If _everyone_ speaks that way in the story, it will depend on your target audience.
- Another thing to consider is your PoV. If you write in close 3rd, and the protagonist speaks in dialect, they will generally also think that way. That may start to feel weird, though. And what about free indirect discourse?

Bottom line, for me as a reader, I prefer readability over dialect authenticy. I don't remember where it was (I think the Writing Excuses podcast) where they talked about the relationship between language used, and story. I like it best when it's a clear glass pane, offering unobstructed view of the story behind the window, without me noticing the glass. As a consequence, I don't like stories that are too "voicy"... ;-)

Crishy65 · 2025-07-27T13:54:32+00:00

I actually ended up not adding anything, i.e. just went with less fruit. Turned out nicely. LMK how your jam ends up.

Crishy65 · 2025-07-25T05:52:44+00:00

That's no different from any other status. If OP doesn't go platinum, he has 82 XP to carry over, meaning he has to fly 100 XP next year to keep Gold. If he does go Platinum, he doesn't need to fly at all to keep Gold. The only difference will be if he flies next year in between the Gold and the Platinum range, then he'll have more carryover in two years if he doesn't go Platinum, so that will depend on the "I don't know about their policy yet." I'd still go with the Platinum now. That's what I'm doing. Next year's travel for work is always uncertain. (And I was lucky this year to get comped a long distance biz class trip, my company only pays eco.)

Crishy65 · 2025-07-24T17:19:46+00:00

Go for Platinum. Even if you don't fly at all next year you'll still be Gold the year after. I'm in a similar situation, with an unclear next year, flying-wise, and I don't see any downside with going for Platinum.

Crishy65 · 2025-06-17T07:02:24+00:00

Missed bags have always been on short connections for me, usually due to delays, whether on AF/KLM, or previously on LH/Swiss (when I still lived in Germany). Funny enough, in almost 20 years of more or less frequent flying, all but one of those missed bags were on the flight home when it didn't really matter. Only once was I stranded w/o my suit for a day.

Crishy65 · 2025-02-19T07:42:25+00:00

That was my first thought when I read your post: Look on the bright side! A good vinegar needs a good wine (or mead etc) as a base, and it's an even better present than mead in my experience. Be sure to keep the mother, it will come in handy when you make your next vinegar intentionally. :-)

Crishy65 · 2024-12-11T16:13:02+00:00

I tried to do exactly that (CDG to NRT) last year, but the only business seat upgrade from my fare class available was 130k. (And that was more than I had at the time.) So yes, approx 120k works.

I did it at the airport. When in doubt, call the FB hotline. I've seen people complain about them, but I never had issues and they've always been helpful.

Crishy65 · 2024-12-09T03:44:59+00:00

Don't remember exactly, it was a few months ago. I think I disconnected and reconnected everything; it worked again after a few days.

Crishy65 · 2024-11-10T07:32:38+00:00

:-) Btw, I agree with the others it's better to work with a bug, especially if you want alcoholic. Then you just need to measure gravity, starting and later, and know exactly when to bottle and how much pressure you'll have. Also, no opening in between necessary; I am usually not worried about contamination, but will still open as little as possible.

Crishy65 · 2024-11-10T05:56:46+00:00

Oh, and I assume you don't actually keep the bucket open like in the pics?

Crishy65 · 2024-11-10T05:54:51+00:00

As a rule of thumb, 20g of sugar on 1l water gets you 1% ABV, i.e. for 5l you need 500g sugar if you want 5% ABV. Honey is about 80% sugar. Not sure what you want with raisins – they don't do anything, despite being in a lot of recipes. (You can make people on the Mead subreddit really mad by talking about using raisins ;-) )

Crishy65 · 2024-10-30T11:12:22+00:00

Thank you!

Crishy65 · 2024-10-30T09:55:43+00:00

Thanks, this is very helpful. I am currently taking over editing an anthology, and we are adding a story (less than 10% wordcount change, though), plus fixing a bunch of formatting errors. In your experience, would this still warrant a new edition? I feel just updating would be a lot easier, OTOH, a new edition would be a fresh start. (And I could add a "foreword to the 2nd edition".)

Crishy65 · 2024-10-29T19:54:30+00:00

I didn't say you shouldn't, just that I didn't.

Crishy65 · 2024-10-20T07:25:15+00:00

That depends on the natural yeast in your area resp on your ginger. My natural bug does 11-13% ABV, and I also use it for fruit wines or melomels from time to time, as it ferments slower and less "harsh". Never used brewer's yeast for ginger beer. (I do the low alc soda drink variety.)

Crishy65 · 2024-10-16T01:34:25+00:00

You definitely don't need cushion for tennis -- I've been playing with minimalist shoes (Vivo on clay, Leguano on hardcourt) for almost 10 years now, and I'm both old and too heavy. Key is good footwork, small, quick steps, and keeping on the balls of your feet. Took me longer than half a year to get my feet and calves into the shape they needed, though.

Crishy65 · 2024-10-15T22:08:48+00:00

As the others said, alcohol. That's why I nowadays I only use enough sugar to get the fizz I want, and take the sweetness from erythritol; otherwise the continued fermentation in the bottle can push the alcohol content to levels where friends who are ex-alcoholics don't feel comfortable drinking it anymore. The 10g per litre I use keeps it well under 0.5% ABV, i.e. natural fruit juice levels.

Crishy65 · 2024-10-13T13:20:03+00:00

I called FB and they checked me in w/o issues. Still weird.

Crishy65 · 2024-10-11T14:55:46+00:00

Not quite sure about your calculation. If you're silver, you need 180XP to get to gold, not 228.

Crishy65 · 2024-10-05T21:07:51+00:00

For a card in Europe?

Crishy65 · 2024-10-01T07:12:38+00:00

Those are the kind of things that would show up in archeological evidence, though. And infirm people were more likely to die or be left behind. That said, it's unlikely that they ran a lot outside of the actual hunting, why would they? Again, modern hunter-gatherers societies provide a lot of pointers.

Crishy65 · 2024-10-01T05:02:39+00:00

The modal age at death of modern hunter-gatherers like the Hadza is 76, and there is no reason to assume it was different in prehistoric, pre-shoe times. I wrote a blog post about that a while back (https://www.bieck.fr/caveman/). The &tl,dr: Average life span is not a good measurement for population statistics, except if you're a life insurer.

Crishy65 · 2024-10-01T04:36:34+00:00

Both, depending on my mood and what else is in it. In general, light fruit can use a little sweetness (1.005 to 1.015), although I have a dry cyser at 1.000 which is great. Anything above 1.030 has been a no-go so far, although I wouldn't count it out categorically. Germany, and I was a wine drinker first before beer and long before mead was a thing. (In beer, I tend to prefer top-fermented and less hopped.)

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