Project chronology
Development record
A compact route through the work, with full conversations kept one level deeper.
Date key. “Platform timestamp” comes from a recorded conversation or website entry. “File evidence” dates the surviving project artifact, not necessarily the first creative act. “Production record” comes from the verified manifests and build reports.
Evidence-backed milestones
| Date | Source | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| August 5, 2025 | Platform timestamp | Gemini’s original 20 Questions sequence reached its recorded answer, “Love.” |
| August 14, 2026 | Website-recorded platform timestamp | Claude’s What Is Love? A Cross-Disciplinary Search for Invariants was recorded. The website identifies it as a verbatim Claude exchange and gives an Anthropic conversation ID. The original Anthropic export was recovered and matched to the bounded two-turn conversation; the website copy contains only minor typography normalization. |
| October 18, 2026 | File evidence | Surviving story-bible and early production files were present by this date. This is a transfer/artifact boundary, not a claim about when the story was first conceived. |
| October 18–20, 2026 | Platform timestamps | Substantial ChatGPT sessions record drafting, revision, continuity work, image prompting, and art decisions. |
| October 19–20, 2026 | Platform timestamps | Claude conversations record editorial, inventory, and publishing review contributions. |
| October 20, 2026 | Production record | The preserved artwork-experiment snapshot records five complete A/B comparisons with both prompts and both outputs. Two other comparisons lack recoverable prompts and are excluded from the documented experiment. |
| October 21, 2026 | Production record | The authoritative artwork manifest records 67 verified selections: 64 in the working manuscript and three intentionally held for Beautiful Wrong Turns. A 413-page internal layout-review proof passed basic clipping and blank-page checks; it is not a publication file. |
| October 22, 2026 | Local staging record | The project archive, galleries, and selected development records were assembled in a private local WordPress mirror for review. No live deployment occurred. |
| Forthcoming | Publication status | Release date, sales listing, and final production approval remain pending. |
Source control: the artwork manifest covers all 35 chapters. Exact hashes and selection evidence remain in the private project files; the gallery never infers a choice from filename or recency.
