Ask the Author: Brian Jaeger
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Brian Jaeger
One novel was started in 2003 and is still less than half finished in 2015, but I wrote the 102-page Simplified Guide to Church Websites in about two weeks. Each of the feature films I wrote with Casey took 2-3 years, while Philadelphia Store, The Musical took over four years. Since most of my short stories took me about a week to write, a collection of 2-3 short stories might be a month of writing, with a few years of editing. Finally, Alex and my Wild West Allis Stories (The 20 master plots about West Allis, WI) will have taken us more than five years when it's all said and done, which it is not as of late 2015.
All that said, if I could publish a single poem and make money doing so, then I could do that in a day or two.
All that said, if I could publish a single poem and make money doing so, then I could do that in a day or two.
Brian Jaeger
I just do something. Walk around, music, mindless searching online. Actually, it's not mindless. I usually look for an article that might help with one of my other stories. I explore and learn something completely unrelated, and then I might even write that story for a while. I write an article. I revise an old poem. I look out the front window of my house and realize my yard will never be the best, but my novel could be, at least better than my non-novel-writing neighbors, and that gets me going again.
Brian Jaeger
I am Prospero. When I create something, it's mine, and it's seemingly forever, at least while I'm on this island of mine. Until I'm completely broke and have to learn how to push pencils somewhere. Could I write a report about last quarter's profits? Yes. Would I want to?
Brian Jaeger
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Brian Jaeger
I am working with my friend Alex on our Wild West Allis series, which is supposed to tell every story ever told (the master plots) about one odd inner-ring suburb around Milwaukee. If you've ever been there, you know what I'm talking about. If not, you'll have to wait until we're done, but you can check out Existallis now.
Brian Jaeger
Sometimes I see one person, but usually it's two or more, and they're having a conversation, or he's looking at her in a way she doesn't notice, and then she twirls her hair in a way that he doesn't notice, and then he says something about as stupidly as I would have, and then I look at someone else. Sometimes I look at a tree, too, but that's not nearly as exciting.
Brian Jaeger
My most recent book, which is a novel I am about 1/10th of the way through, came to me when I read about a legend of the church that has kind of disappeared. But it might be just as importantly a way for me to remember my month backpacking through Western Europe.
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