Systems of Measurement in World-Building

Measurement in World-Building

During the initial drafting of Transference, one of the (many) things that stymied me was a concern over what measurement system to use. Of course, there were much bigger things to figure out, but it’s funny how those small, idiosyncratic choices can really slow you down. I even went so far as to change everything from imperial to metric in one of the revisions, to which my wife replied with a confused “ew?”, and then reverted it back in another subsequent revision.

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