Blackmoor Vituperative

After several days of plotting scenes in my head, I started writing Spider Season today. That’s the working title. I’ve written about 650 words so far. If I can do 500 words per day, I can finish the novel in 8 months.

I am still not sure how to handle time, weights, and measures. If I make something up, that will push the reader out of the story. If I use “kilos” and “meters” and so on, that will seem too modern. If I use archaic measurements like “stone” or “yards”, that will implicitly place the story in our past. I am not sure what to do.

I have also placed myself in the awkward position of having to find out how large a ten-year-old girl’s feet are. How does one find such information without looking like some kind of pervert?