Proof of Human Authorship - Keystroke Data - Jake Fidellius - Consensus of Stars and Mirror Lives (Two books)

Consensus of Stars Keystroke Data Overview The Consensus of Stars was composed across a hundred and eight days, from the last morning of November 2025 to a March evening in 2026. The active-editing clock stopped at eight hours and thirty-five minutes, with total contribution time reaching thirteen hours ten minutes once idle and reading passes are included. Set against 46,457 finished words, that works out to a live typing pace of roughly 91 wpm, a figure that includes the pauses between sentences but excludes the offline hours spent in Toronto coffee houses, notebooks, and at the piano. The bulk of the philosophical scaffolding — Jake's quantum-ethics musings, the wet-versus-dry moral framework, the river-folk cosmology — was carried in longhand before landing on the page. The revision profile is unusually clean for prose of this length. 34,637 insertion events against 4,692 deletions gives a 7.4 : 1 ratio, and only 493 formatting actions across a 269,000-character document. Read together, those numbers describe a forward-driven first-draft process: scenes accrete in confident passes rather than being reworked line by line, and typography is left mostly untouched in favour of prose. The 38,756 logged timepoints spread across the composition window trace a rhythm of steady daily work rather than a single frenzied sprint — consistent with a novelist who returned to the manuscript again and again over a full quarter. Mirror Lives Keystroke Data Overview Mirror Lives was composed in a concentrated seven-day sprint between 16 and 23 February 2026, a mode of drafting I have used before for shorter sequels intended to sit close in tone to their predecessor. Despite being roughly 58% the length of The Consensus of Stars in word count, the manuscript logged 70,932 revision timepoints, nearly double the first volume, and 14 hours and 32 minutes of active editing against 8 hours and 35 minutes for the first book. Total session engagement reached 25 hours across the week. All contribution is attributed to a single author, Alexander Paul Burton, at 100%. Several appendices and technical passages were sketched offline before transcription, which is reflected in the report's own note of offline-typing detection. The density of timepoints against the shorter word count reflects a more granular, more revised composition process, consistent with a sequel written to slot precisely into an established narrative frame. The insertion-to-deletion ratio holds at roughly 6.9 to 1, close to the ratio observed in the first volume and again characteristic of forward-drafting rather than iterative refinement of external output. Average active typing rate reads 32 words per minute, roughly a third of the pace registered on the first book. This shift is consistent with a manuscript held for longer per session, revised in-line, and thought through against continuity with the preceding volume, rather than paced out at first-draft speed. Formatting activity rose to 1,424 events, in line with the greater number of appendices and interior structural elements the second book carries.