A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (2009) (edit title/settings)

Becca! (: edited the table of contents of A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Wednesday, January 13, 2010.

• I. Exposition
  1. Random Scenes
  2. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
  3. They Fell Like Feathers
  4. My Real Life Was Boring
  5. Flesh and Soul Better
  6. My Uncle's Funeral and a Wedding
  7. Going to See the Professor
  8. The Elements of a Meaningful Life
  9. How Jason Saved His Family

  II. A Character
  10. Writing the World
  11. Imperfect is Perfect
  12. You'll Be Different at the End
  13. A Character Is What He Does
  14. Saving the Cat
  15. Listen to Your Writer
  16. Something on the Page

  III. A Character Who Wants Something
  17. How to Make Yourself Write a Better Story
  18. An Inciting Incident
  19. Pointing Toward the Horizon
  20. Negative Turns
  21. A Good Story, Hijacked
  22. A Practice Story
  23. A Positive Turn
  24. Meeting Bob

  IV. A Character Who Wants Something and Overcomes Conflict
  25. A Better Story
  26. The Thing About a Crossing
  27. The Pain Will Bind Us
  28. A Tree in a Story About a Forest
  29. The Reason God Hasn't Fixed You Yet
  30. Great Stories Have Memorable Scenes

  V. A Character Who Wants Something and Overcomes Conflict to Get It
  31. Squeezing the Cat
  32. The Beauty of a Tragedy
  33. All You Have to Do Is Try
  34. To Speak Something into Nothing
  35. Summer Snow in Delaware
  36. Where Once There Was Nothing

  Afterword

  About the Author

  Acknowledgments