A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

By: Donald Miller

Published September 29th 2009 by Thomas Nelson (first published April 15th 2009)

Category: Business

Pages: 255 pages

ISBN: 9780785213062

Description:

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.

Years after writing his best-selling memoir, Donald Miller went into a funk and spent months sleeping in and avoiding his publisher. One story had ended, and Don was unsure how to start another.

But he gets rescued by two movie producers who want to make a movie based on his memoir. When they start fictionalizing Don's life for film--changing a meandering memoir into a structured narrative--the real-life Don starts a journey to edit his actual life into a better story. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details that journey and challenges readers to reconsider what they strive forÊin life. It shows how to get a second chance atÊlife theÊfirst time around.