Ander Blake asked Brian Jaeger:

How long does it take you to finish a book?

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.

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