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" A million miles in a thousand years : "
Donald Miller.
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BL
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634476
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| Main Entry
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Miller, Donald,1971-
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A million miles in a thousand years : : what I learned while editing my life /\ Donald Miller.
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xiii, 255 pages ;; 22 cm
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9780785213062
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: 0785213066
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: 1400202981
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9781400202980
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1400202981
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9781418585877
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1418585874
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| Contents
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pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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 -- pt. 4. 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 -- pt. 5. 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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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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Miller, Donald,1971-
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Christian biography-- United States.
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Autobiography-- Authorship.
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| Dewey Classification
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277.3/083092B
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BR1725.M4465A3 2009
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