How Much Joy Can You Stand?: How to Push Past Your Fears and Create Your Dreams

For everyone who's having trouble starting that screenplay, business plan, doctoral thesis, or patchwork quilt, novelist and essayist Suzanne Falter-Barns provides inspiration. She shares insights on talent and whether it matters, why helpful things begin to happen when we follow our dreams, and new ways to think about the inevitable failures. This book's wisdom is liberally laced with humor for a kick-start to joyful living.

If you're an entrepreneur holding tight to that big idea, a writer with writer's block, or anyone afraid to "go for it!" this is the book for you. In fresh, funny language amply laced with wisdom, How Much Joy Can You Stand? gives you a wealth of ways to break through those walls to creative expression--and provides the inspirational kick in the pants you've been waiting for.

Inside is all the reassurance and encouragement you need to get going and keep going. Stories, anecdotes, and the author's own hard-won wisdom tell the simple truth about creating your dream--it's not as hard as you think.

Discover how to ignite the fire in your belly and get your creative juices flowing; when to run from helpful advice; whether talent really matters; and how to stick with your work even in the face of couch-potato attacks and complete creative meltdown. Hands-on exercises follow each short, pungent chapter to put you back on track toward achieving your goals--and realizing your dreams!