Author here. I’m breaking my own hard rule never to respond to reviews, but I want to address this AI claim directly.
Tesla and the Pyramid was a bizarre, two-year odyssey of braiding multiple real-world elements into one coherent novel.
The research phase alone was approximately one year of full-time work. The writing and editorial phase was a second year of full-time work.
The eight mind maps and the narrative payload braid diagram containing the full corpus of the novel’s material were so massive they could only be printed at a local print shop on their largest poster board, even at 12-point font. I still have all of those schematics at my house.
The entire first draft was written daily between the hours of 4 a.m. and 8 a.m., from November 2023 to February 2024—a time slot chosen so my employer at the time didn't steal my best cognitive hours. That first draft was 225,000 words. By October 2024, the manuscript had been cut down to 205,000 words. I have more than one hundred hand-crafted draft versions showing the evolution of Tesla and the Pyramid from beginning to end.
I welcome thoughtful criticism of the quirky writing style, the narrative architecture, and the characterization. I certainly didn't set out to write a pretentious “intellectual” masterpiece. I wanted a fun, vintage Spielberg vibe. By design.
If you’re looking for Dostoevsky, maybe skip this technothriller
Tesla and the Pyramid was a bizarre, two-year odyssey of braiding multiple real-world elements into one coherent novel.
The research phase alone was approximately one year of full-time work.
The writing and editorial phase was a second year of full-time work.
The eight mind maps and the narrative payload braid diagram containing the full corpus of the novel’s material were so massive they could only be printed at a local print shop on their largest poster board, even at 12-point font. I still have all of those schematics at my house.
The entire first draft was written daily between the hours of 4 a.m. and 8 a.m., from November 2023 to February 2024—a time slot chosen so my employer at the time didn't steal my best cognitive hours. That first draft was 225,000 words. By October 2024, the manuscript had been cut down to 205,000 words. I have more than one hundred hand-crafted draft versions showing the evolution of Tesla and the Pyramid from beginning to end.
I welcome thoughtful criticism of the quirky writing style, the narrative architecture, and the characterization. I certainly didn't set out to write a pretentious “intellectual” masterpiece. I wanted a fun, vintage Spielberg vibe. By design.
If you’re looking for Dostoevsky, maybe skip this technothriller