Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
Yes, that would be 'En rutinartad spaningsflygning', back around 1960 when I was in my teens. In English that would be 'A Routine Reconnaissance Flight'. As the title indicates, it's a war story in Swedish. It's set in IU1, my Imaginary Universe #1, which I started developing at the age of 7 or thereabouts, so over time it accumulated so many impossibilities and so much silly stuff that I eventually abandoned it. As an example, the aircraft in the story was a P-51 Mustang, in a world with intergalactic space flight. (There was a rationale for this: The development of the warp drive led to all intellectual effort and all economic resources that could be spared being concentrated on space exploration and colonization, so that all other fields stalled or retrogressed.)
The title is rather ironic, since the story ends with the pilot dead.
What is your writing process?
Generally I don't have any structured process for writing. I mull an idea for a period varying from minutes to decades, then I start writing. Sometimes I finish the job, sometimes not. In the former case I still have to turn it into something worth reading, which sometimes involves submitting it to Critters, sometimes not.
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