Dallas Public Library

A million miles in a thousand years, what I learned while editing my life, Donald Miller

eng

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non fiction

A million miles in a thousand years

Donald Miller

what I learned while editing my life

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 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 -- Part IV: 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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