Thursday, February 4, 2010

What story are you writing?

Any good story has this structure: A character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. While writing a movie script based on his personal memoirs, Don Miller concluded the story his life was writing was boring. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years cleverly summarizes how he rewrote (and is still writing) his life story to mean something.

Miller has a simplistic yet thought provoking style of writing that engages the reader from the introduction. His words are simultaneously entertaining and challenging, causing the reader to question the story he/she is living. By the end of the book, you will do an audit of your life story and evaluate how your schedule and checkbook shape the story you really want to your life to write.