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Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things...

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

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

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

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another stor...

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

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks...

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

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

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

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

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

...I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll.

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

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

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

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

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

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

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

The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

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

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginn...

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

If you think about it, we get robbed of the mystery of being alive. I think we get robbed of the glory of it because we don't remember how we got here. When you get born, you wake up slowly to everything. From birth to 26, God is slowly turning on th...

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