Kristen Tsetsi asked Jeffrey Miller:

How long does it usually take you to finish a novel, from first word on the page to edited/revised/ready-to-go manuscript?

Jeffrey Miller That's a good question, Kristen. My last novel, Bureau 39, took five years to complete. Granted I wasn't working on it continuously, but I worked on it on and off for four years and worked on it regularly for the last year. My problem, or should I say, my modus operandi, is that I work on several projects at the same time. If I write myself into a corner, instead of banging my head against the wall, I will work on another project for a while and then come back to the one I had been working on. My current work in progress, which started out as a short story, is one of those projects. I started work on it in March, put it aside to finish up Bureau 39; then I started on another project over the summer and came back this one in September and have been working on it continuously.

I'm always writing, Kristen. I'm always working on something. It's all rather seamless in the grand scheme of things.

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