Time Line of B. K. Neifert
July 23rd, 1989 – B. K. Neifert is Born
November 9th, 1989 – The Berlin Wall Falls
September 11th, 2001 – The Twin Towers are Attacked
October 7th, 2001 – The War in Afghanistan begins. A seminal influence in B. K. Neifert’s work.
October 26th, 2001 – The Patriot Act is Signed, which brings a decrease in United States’ Freedom, and influences Neifert’s earliest works, when he notices the decline in American prosperity and freedom.
May 20th, 2003 – The Iraq War is initiated, which Neifert’s dad was a heavy critic of, and influenced Neifert’s disdain for American overseas interventions.
2005 – Neifert, in the summer leading up to his Junior Year of High School, begins his first attempt at serious writing, as he pens an erotic science fiction novel, and head ways about 50,000 words into it. He never finishes it, and deleted all source copies of the work. But, some of its themes feature in Neifert’s earlier works, such as idealized romance; and the “Necromancer” from this early work makes its first appearance in what is possibly the beginning of Neifert’s doppelganger theme.
2006 – Neifert begins the Fifth Angel’s Trumpet, which was originally from a game in his child’s play.
2008 – Barack Obama is elected the First Black President of the United States.
2008 – 2009 – B. K. Neifert is arrested and convicted of two counts of simple assault and two counts of reckless endangerment, spurred by a psychotic episode where he vehicular assaulted two teenagers. He receives treatment for mental illness his entire life, and makes a successful recovery.
2010 – Neifert pens Utopia and 316 of the maxims found in The Wisdom of B. K. Neifert.
2011 – Neifert is inspired to write flash fiction from a Writer’s Market Magazine, and does substantial work on A Brief Space Opera. He also pioneers his style which he will use for The Riddle in the Sea, A Brief Space Opera and Solomon’s Romance.
2012 -2013 – Neifert has written several unsuccessful essay pieces and quasi cultish pieces, which he never attempts to publish. He also attends college courses at Harrisburg Area Community College, where he takes a fruitful Creative Writing Course and learns about Existentialism and Platonism in Philosophy – He also receives a comprehensive Humanities education, being exposed to the world’s most famous art. He also is inspired to write Prestor John and the Children’s Crusade when they are mentioned in a Western History Class, which the same professor also assigned reading to Neifert’s brother which would later become highly inspirational to Neifert’s work.
2013 – 2014 – Neifert makes a full confession of his entire life’s history and criminal behavior to a police officer. While awaiting his trial, and the time he’d spend in York County Jail, he finishes The Fifth Angel’s Trumpet. How to Write is started.
2014 – Neifert spends 5 months in jail, where he writes the narrative poems which will appear in “What is Poetry” and additional stories for A Brief Space Opera.
2015 – Donald Trump reveals he will run for President, and Neifert, through his political leanings, stays skeptical. Even at some points calling Donald Trump the Antichrist. Neifert also composes his first poetry album, “Bitter Medicine.”
2015 – The Baltimore Riots break out, foreshadowing racial tensions within the United States, over the death of Freddie Grey.
2016 – Neifert is left off his strict probation, and begins writing The Amelia Chronicles. Neifert also watches Yale Courses Online, lectures by Paul Fry, about Literary Theory and develops a comprehensive literary method, which he uses to interpret many of the world’s most famous works of literature.
2017 – Neifert writes what is possibly his most significant piece, Hail Britannica. He dreamed the plot, and wrote the entire epic over the course of 2017, using an Encarta Encyclopedia from 2004 as a base for the factual details, and also an Encarta Dictionary to help him look up Etymologies and find German rooted words for his Fairy Tale.
2018 – Neifert composes most of Fairyland, especially the Odes of Brittos, The Ballad of Maddok, Prestor John and The Tale of Subang. He also begins to create the mythology of the Thirteen Kings, compiling them into two early works, one of which is called “Young Shadows”.
2019 – Neifert writes The Elf in Manhattan and The Most Bitter Thought which will appear in his third draft of “My Collected Writings.” Neifert also Hand Writes The Tragedy of Joan of Arc (Having severe Dysgraphia from when he fell and hit his head as a four year old, he overcame the disability and hand wrote some of his major pieces).
2020 – 2021 – Covid19 Pandemic brings the Entire World to a Screeching Halt. Neifert uses this time to comprehensively edit his work, and begins “The American Mythology.”
August of 2021 – The U.S. officially announces Combat Missions end in Iraq, for the second time, and the Taliban regain control of Afghanistan after the U.S.’s disastrous withdrawal under Joe Biden.
2022 – How to Write is finally completed. And Neifert also finishes The Amelia Chronicles. And he writes the Prose Mythos. He also writes The Master Key.
2020 – 2023 – Neifert composes thousands of his poems – which he will become known for – including The Odes of Strangers series, The Trilogy of Sonnets, The Three Hyperion Themes and starts to compose his wisdom literature. He also consolidates his smaller, random publications into more comprehensive and polished volumes.
2023 – Neifert writes Artemis XX, The Third Reich, Theseus and Brittos, Ayin and Athrin and Cyrus Versus Julius Caesar.
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