A million miles in a thousand years

what I learned while editing my life

A million miles in a thousand years

what I learned while editing my life
Donald Miller
Book - 2009

Full of beautiful, heart-wrenching, and hilarious stories, "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" details one man's opportunity to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie, showing how to get a second chance at life the first time around.

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37413316932476 Available Non-fiction 277.3083 MILLER
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Donald, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2009.
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505 0 |a Part I: Exposition -- Random scenes -- A million miles in a thousand years -- They fell like feathers -- My real life was boring -- Flesh and soul better -- My uncle's funeral and a wedding -- Going to see the professor -- The basic elements of a meaningful life -- How Jason saved his family -- Part II: A character -- Writing the world -- Imperfect is perfect -- You'll be different at the end -- A character is what he does -- Saving the cat -- Listen to your writer -- Something on the page -- Part III: A character who wants something -- How to make yourself write a better story -- An inciting incident -- Pointing toward the horizon -- Negative turns -- A good story, hijacked -- A practice story -- Meeting Bob -- Part IV: A character who wants something and overcomes conflict -- A better story -- The thing about a crossing -- The pain will bind us -- A tree in a story about a forest -- The reason God hasn't fixed you yet -- Great stories have memorable scenes -- Part V: A character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it -- Squeezing the cat -- The beauty of a tragedy -- All you have to do is try -- To speak something into nothing -- Summer snow in Delaware -- Where once there was nothing. 
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