Frequently Asked Questions

Did you really get up this early?

We've been doing it for so long I honestly can't remember, these days we start more or less around 6:30AM

Are you making things up? Those rinks don't exist.

Yes, this is done to protect the identity of our precious group. While a little realism help readers connect with us a bit better, I think it is more important to protect the identity of members of our group.

Is Ricky For real?

Yes, every character in the book is based on someone in our group, the sequence of the events aren't necessarily true to actual events.

But everything in the book happened.

How much of the book was AI generated?

While AI was used in consultation, none of the actual text is generated by AI. Believe me, AI writes way better than I do. Out of all the suggestions it made, I only took the suggestion maybe 5% of the time, and even then I only took a few words and phrases, or rephrased it entirely anyway. Rest assured, my literay prowess is lacking so much that AI refuses to generate text that sounded like me. With that being said, I did ask AI to compare my pacing, flow and character with some benchmark work. I made sure it said everything was top tier before I was comfortable making this public.

So why did you do it?

It's a funny and sad story. A few years back, when someone on my league team was away and wanted to know what happened

I responded with "It was 4 - 1" and paused for dramatic effect until it was finally revealed we won the game 5-4 in the last minute

Then my team made me write recaps every week. When we finally started doing weekly pickup hockey, I figured why not?

Good news is, I got drafted onto a different team this season, so, no writing for a while, phew.