#WritersCoffeeClub 3/4 Share a recent experience where something just 'clicked'.
I've made some good strides revising my WIP and am finding great bits to salvage from the first draft, but not so many 'click' moments lately.
I did have a fun revelation while jogging last weekend where I realized that people probably based the mile off of kilometers. To me, it makes no sense that someone said "ooh! We're going to take 5,512 arbitrary feet and call it a mile" when 1600 meters fits perfectly into a mile. I imagine they measured out the meters and started calling that a mile first and then figured how many feet that worked out to be.
I haven't checked that. It could be wrong.
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