Top 10 Decisions For Creative Success
Creators, artists, writers, producers - these are the decisions that will help assure your success.
The Will Smith Oscar Slap
First of all nothing happens in a vacuum. Happiness is contagious and so is war… It’s no coincidence that the word protect was the focal word in Will Smith’s so-called apology. What it looked like was a little boy who felt like he needed to be protected…
Seize the Moment
I'm so excited UnCabaret is live on stage again! But of course part of me is like - wait - no. Is it ok to be excited about that. Am I actually? Because of. You know. All of it.
But if there is one take away from these past two years… Carpe - what's Latin for moment? Momentus. Which sounds at once huge. Momentous. Like a momentous decision or a momentous change. Mountainous. And also carpe moments. It also sounds ike momentum. In motion. That enviable state of not stuckness. What you hope for a career. A project. A day. The e motion. Of love. Yes carpe momentus friends. Because right now it's usually not a whole day. That's seizable.
Writing Classes
If you are a story teller - in any medium - film/TV/steaming, print, podcasting, stage - knowing your story, the depth of it, the complexity of it, the shape of it, the changing nature of it, the funniness of it, the thread that connects all your various stories - this what makes all your work sparkle. What makes it undeniable.
The Keep Things
By the time she died my mom and I had different taste in almost everything. Colors. Clothes. Me. But we agreed about Opium. The perfume. Not the drug. We may have agreed about the drug too, but we didn’t talk about it. My mom was not big on talk. Ever. And she had the forgetting condition, so by the end, there was almost no talk. Once when she wanted to refer to my new maybe boyfriend, she took two finger and scissored them towards each other, going them from a V to an I. I knew what she meant immediately. Without words. And maybe that was true of Opium too. Smell is beyond words. And it was in the beyond words place that we were ok together.
What People Are Saying
What people are saying about “So You Need To Decide” on Amazon, audible, apple and twitter. “Compelling… inspiring… helped me decide… funny! I knew it ws going to be good. But it’s GREAT!”
Sneak Peek: So You Need To Decide
A Sound Cloud playlist of excerpts from Beth Lapides’ original audiobook So You Need To Decide including Margaret Cho, Bob Odenkirk, Dana Gould, Tim Bagley, Sandra Bernhard.
10 Simple Ways To Start The Thing You’ve Struggled To Start
How to stop waiting and start making.
Joan Didion’s Egg
When people ask me why I came to Los Angeles I usually cite love and following a husband with a blossoming screenwriting career. But today I am remembering Joan Didion’s egg. On the wheel. And all that it meant about what I could never know about life if I didn’t move here. To this mysterious place. To this place with so much sun that you know that the darkness is all your own.
It’s All Transitions
So I'm in the middle of yoga class
And my teacher's reminding us
That transitions are where most injuries happen.
So be mindful.