A million miles in a thousand years : what I learned while editing my life
Publication Information
Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2009.
Physical Description
xiii, 255 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary
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.
Contents
- 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
- A positive turn
- 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.