Bela Lampert

Optioned Screenwriter / Yoga Instructor

People Will Hate You

[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] People Will Hate You In the best case. Here's why. If you try to please everyone, you'll end up pleasing no one. And most importantly, not even yourself. If you write, you're putting your opinion out there. In a way at least. If you get criticism because of...

There Are No Judges

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] There Are No Judges You know that feeling when you've worked on your book or script for hours and hours and hours and then when someone reads it they point out a lot of things that "don't work"? It's tough. But there are a few things that...

No! You’re Doing It Wrong!

[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] No! You're Doing It Wrong! Try to remember the last thing in your writing that didn't work out. How did you react to it? Most people, when it comes to "mistakes", they get tense and angry. Angry at someone else or angry at themselves. What if you could...

Is Your Book Cover Misleading?

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Is Your Book Cover Misleading? Book covers give expectations. If you browse through the book store and take a look at the different covers you will notice that based on that you will have certain expectations about the content of the book. Most likely you’ll head straight...

What’s On Your Cover?

[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] What's On Your Cover? Covers give expectations. There is the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” but when it’s really about books or movies that’s exactly what we do. Let’s consider a book shop. If you’re looking for a new book there is not much...

You’re All Alone

[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] You're All Alone Yes, when you’re writing. You’re sitting alone at the desk and it’s just you and the page. But have you ever read the acknowledgements of successful books? Do you think an athlete superstar got to where he is all by himself? Or an actor?...

Stop Writing! You Have Failed.

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Stop Writing! You Have Failed. How often do you ask yourself if you should stop writing? Once a day? Every now and then? And when you ask yourself that, what do you do? What is your measurement if you should still push on. Despite not knowing...

But What Do I Love?

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] But What Do I Love? How often do you worry about if you really want or should be a writer? How often are your thoughts about that running in circles? It can be super hard to find out what we really want to do with our lives....

Find My iPhone

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Find My iPhone Sometimes we get lost in our lives. In our books, our stories. We see things we think we want and then it turns out they’re bad for us. We see people we want to be with, who admire us, and then later we realize...