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.”

January 6th, 2021 - Protests erupt at the Capital after civil unrest through 2020's Covid Lockdowns, deeply dividing the American public across party lines, and their opinion on Donald Trump.

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.

24th February, 2022 - The Ukraine War escalates, which began in 2014. For two days the United States people are unified on the War, but conspiracy theories and politics divide Americans on it based across party lines, creating even more fractures within the American Politics.

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 – 2025 – 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.

October 7th, 2023 - Hezbollah and HAMAS invade Israel, putting babies in ovens and murdering and raping Israeli citizens. They take captives. The United States people are unified pro Israel, until Conspiracy Theories and Politics divide the people. College campuses begin to form sympathies with HAMAS, Hezbollah and even Al Qaeda, as anti-semites divide with Pro Israel elements in the conservative party, and radical Liberals unify and start to support Terror Organizations.

Late Summer - Mid Fall 2023 - Neifert writes Artemis XX, The Third Reich, Theseus and Brittos, Ayin and Athrin and Cyrus Versus Julius Caesar.

February 2024 - Neifert writes his Manifesto on all his beliefs, beginning to structure a theory about applied language through the study of mathematics.

October 2024 - Neifert reorganizes his books into more polished volumes, and unpublishes half his work, while compiling the other half into more mature, and better crafted manuscripts, also reverting Fairyland and Young Shadows to their original forms, and publishes Hail Britannica as a stand alone work again.

January 2025 - Donald Trump regains office, and begins making many Executive Orders. Also tensions around the world seem to de-escalate, but Neifert stays Skeptical.

February 2025 - Neifert writes Anthem Louise Alcott, and publishes it in a new draft of Bread of Harvest with The Master Key and Prose Mythos.

June 2025 - Neifert rewrites Il Tema, and begins putting together a more polished version of Flirtations with Ate.

June 22, 2025 - Tensions start to escalate across the world, as Iran and Israel engage in escalated warfare; Trump begins combat missions in Iran. Zelinksy is welcomed in Canada, but Trump isn't, showing brewing hostilities across the world, as alliances start to break, and war is almost immanent.

2020 - 2025 - Neifert starts to study Geometry and Geometric Proofs, and begins to apply his skills to develop visual demonstrations of basic maths concepts and also does work on understanding and visualizing Euler's Identity. And uses his knowledge to put forth an argument from design.

2023 - 2025 - Neifert compiles 70 pages of hard evidence proving the Bible's historicity. 

2022 - 2025 - Neifert writes thousands of short essays on a Question and Answer Website called Quora.

B. K. Neifert is an autodidact who's honed his craft since 2007. He's written everything from dramatic Space Operas and Chronicle Novels, to Essay Collections and Neoclassical Poetry. He has a firm grasp on literature, which helps shape his stories into finely woven masterpieces. In his repertoire are many epic poems; and a Trilogy (The Fifth Angel's Trumpet) involving conspiracy, romance and hardcore action. Relevant to the day, his books are a critique of modern culture, an exploration of Democratic Socialism and often a scathing critique of The Self. His Essay collections include an attempt to create a universal theory of literature and also a short discourse on how to read poetry. A polymath, Neifert has touched every subject under the sun with his works, and has many visions of tomorrow for readers to discover. His sole labor under the sun is to enlighten readers to the power of a story.

Author's Bio

Brandon Neifert is the author of books including In Defense of the Story, a crowning achievement of autodidactism; My Collected Writings, a medley of various writings on diverse topics; and, The Love of Another, an epic novel starring a rowdy maverick colonel caught between a devastating, fifth world war and the love of his life. Neifert is a self-educated, self-published writer, who, much like his characters, strives for the moral best in both himself and society. A devoted Christian, Neifert was born-again when confronted with a sin from his adolescence that ultimately led to his confession and incarceration as an adult. Neifert has a colorful past, but makes up for it with his scrupulous observations of the human condition, framing both good and evil in ways that even the most skeptical can agree.

[W]hen I was young, 19 - 23 I read all the major works on politics and economics. Because I was writing a book that involved politics and economics, and so I wanted to develop a realistic society; I still do that today. I also kept track of current events, and read a lot of history.

I did at 18/19 discover Pi related to a circle’s circumference with a piece of string, quarter and ruler. And I found a way to complete the square when trying to do some math for research in my first book, as I figured out explosive force was quadratic. Which it should be, if the Theory of Relativity is true. I didn’t know the Quadratic Equation at this time. At all.

But then, at 2015 I began to read poetry, like Byron, Wordsworth, or Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf. So I’d be about 25/26 at this time. Which the bulk of my writing was written in the last decade, actually. Some of my best was my earliest, but I have some excellent works in my mature years, too. And this is when almost all my serious poetry was written.

Then about 2020, I saw the world imploding with COVID, so I started doubting my politics, as I saw more and more, conspiracy theories were shaping the narrative—which I intuited at a young age, even around 2010, but it really became fully realized at this time. And in this time I was studying geometry, or had just started doing so. I opened up Euclid’s elements, and started figuring it out. Also, at 30 your mind matures a bit, and you start to see things a little clearer than when you were 19 or 25.

But, yes. I’d think hitting all disciplines at once, has helped shape my writing. Being interested in both the arts and math has kind of helped me be a better writer.

The hardest part, was when I was a bit younger, I had absolutely terrible prose. It’s still not the best—so people say, but I have a PA Dutch roll where I poetically inflect things, and use generative syntax.

But, just developing a style people would read.

The Love of Another, took me 10 years to finish. My first drafts were word salad, but I edited that work about 100 times. I just kept editing it, and editing it, learning.

So, I had a short story about the World War IV in my collection. And my other novel was consistently being edited as I worked. And my dad had a hand in editing it, too, but he got Then and Than completely mixed up. But, he did a pretty good job.

But I could see the difference in my short story. It was just rough. A lot of verbosity that didn’t need to be in there, a lot of function words… I edited it about 7 years after I wrote the thing. That one my uncle read, and said it was terrible. And it was… it was poorly written, but I had to come into my style.

Well, I had an English Teacher as a friend, and we argued consistently about my style. Well, to prove her wrong, I wrote a story called The Riddle in the Sea, where I used no Helper Verbs, Adverbs, Pronouns or Conjunctions. In the Dialogue I did. And… lo and behold, that act of rebellion improved my writing style immediately. It made my style more concrete.

So, I’d say finding my voice was the hardest hurdle, as I had the ideas. I was very structured—the English Teacher friend said my structure was perfect—and I had the ideas. I just needed to clean up my language.

I’d say also an 051 English Course, that just went over all the basics of syntax and punctuation, helped a lot, too. It just taught me to use commas, and semicolons, and colons, and em dashes… So I just got better progressively.

And I’d say Hail Britannica helped too. I wrote a first draft, and went over the entire thing, replacing Latin and French words with German and Old English words. Which helped crisp my language a lot. Which, that work I actually dreamt before writing it. So it is the proper Epic Poem, like John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.

Which, funny story about that Epic Poem, I had a vision or something, of a friend who was going to give me a Dream Machine. This shows up in my writing. And I had a conversation about the book before it was ever written. And in the vision, it was a chalice of blood that I had to drink, that I don’t remember drinking (The Cup of the LORD’s Wrath). But, in real life, I walked back through my hallway, and prayed not to receive it. And my friend disappeared. So, I still have this dream spirit attacking me—I think it was a curse—but like John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, it is also prophetic.

Which, the Lord says in Isaiah:

21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

22 Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.