For quite some time, I have been doing world-building in my head at night, as I go to sleep. To help myself get to sleep, I would “pull back up” the previous revision of the story from my faulty-at-best organic memory buffers. (Honestly, given the state of my memory at the best of times, I’m amazed this worked at all.) Then I would run through the events of the story, reach the end, and puzzle on what might come next. I kept no records of this until one day I decided I had reached the end of the story and that I had better write it down before it slipped away. So on July 3, 2024 I wrote down the basic short story of Pelsa and her adventures in the Tube. (I titled it “Silly Space Story,” mostly because I have no confidence in my ability to write fiction.)
At the time, I had no further plans.