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BELA LAMPERT
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Final Draft 11 Deep Review
In this article, I will give Final Draft 11 a deep and thorough review. It’s going to be...
February 23, 2021 -
A Surefire Way to See If You’re Stressed
The mind is the master and the body is the slave. This means, the mind commands and the bo...
February 7, 2021 -
Following Success Models
If you’re not completely new to writing and you’re just starting out (which yo...
February 6, 2021 -
The Windscreen Wipers Exercise
The problem with our mind constantly firing (partly random) thoughts at us is not that tho...
February 5, 2021 -
The Problem With Familiarity
We tend to accept and seek things that are familiar to us. Because we are already used to ...
February 4, 2021 -
The Things You Don’t Do
Deep down we already know how to become better. How to become the person we want to be. Wh...
February 3, 2021 -
What If Your Assumptions Are Wrong?
When did you hit the last roadblock in writing? A place where you came to a point that you...
February 2, 2021 -
What Writer’s Block Really Is
This is according to my experience. Yours might be different. I’ve never experienced...
February 1, 2021 -
The Promise On Your Cover
If you go to a book store and pick a book, you will make a great percentage of whether you...
January 31, 2021 -
What Being Overwhelmed Really Means
We feel it all the times. Being overwhelmed. There is so much to do. Get your writing done...
January 30, 2021 -
You Can Always Tell The Winners At The Starting Gate
There is this scene in “Once Upon A Time In America” where the Robert deNiro C...
January 29, 2021 -
Your Five Star Service
Imaging you invite guests that you like a lot versus guests you maybe don’t want to ...
January 28, 2021 -
Don’t Hold Your Farts In
Don’t Hold Your Farts In There is “stuff” inside you that needs to get o...
January 27, 2021 -
It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn
I love this line from “Batman The Dark Knight” although I’m pretty sure ...
January 26, 2021 -
Do You Accept?
You can’t control your environment. Or at least, almost none of it. But you can cont...
January 25, 2021 -
Be Egoistic
Being egoistic somehow has become something negative. “Oh, he’s so egoistic, h...
January 23, 2021 -
How to Fail Often And Fast
How to Fail Often And Fast One of the things that holds many people back from real advance...
January 22, 2021 -
Getting Bad Notes
If you get back bad notes from a producer or publisher about your work. What does that say...
January 21, 2021 -
How Is Your Digestion?
Remember the last time you ate something bad, or too much? And your digestion rebelled? Ev...
January 20, 2021 -
Sometimes It’s Not About You
Sometimes it’s about another person. The other person who wants to share happiness, ...
January 19, 2021 -
Are You Worth Your Time?
When you spend time with other people that’s an honor for them. You are sharing a pa...
January 18, 2021 -
The Things You Don’t Want
The next time when you something you like and you catch yourself thinking, “I want t...
January 17, 2021 -
Who You Compare To
Who You Compare To When was the last time you declared yourself being stuck? When you had ...
January 16, 2021 -
Wasted Time
Many people complain about not having enough time. “If only the day had an hour more...
January 15, 2021 -
Which Fights to Fight
Fights need energy. You can’t fight every person who is “wrong” in your ...
January 14, 2021 -
What If
What if you lose a lot of time thinking, “what if”. What if you put that time ...
January 13, 2021 -
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There Are No Voices
Do you catch yourself sometimes having imaginary arguments with people about something tha...
January 11, 2021 -
Don’t Ask Permisison
Oftentimes when we want to pursue our goals we check with others what they think about it....
January 10, 2021 -
Risk Your Job
I read somewhere that you need to risk your job if you want to continue to be successful. ...
January 9, 2021 -
Routines That Kill You
As we grow older we develop more and more patterns. Habits. Most of them we aren’t e...
January 8, 2021 -
Do It! Don’t Do It!
There are two sides to everything. If you just concentrate to one of them, you’ll ru...
January 7, 2021 -
Mutually Exclusive States
Some emotional states are mutually exclusive. They cannot happen at the same time. Example...
January 6, 2021 -
Dear …
When you’re angry you cannot be creative. So first, you need to find your peace to g...
January 5, 2021 -
How Loud Are Your Thoughts?
I used to think that the harder I work the more chance on success I have. While this think...
January 4, 2021 -
Embrace Your Limits
Many people think in terms of limitations way too much. “I can’t do this, so I...
January 3, 2021 -
The Secret Behind Friendly Ignorance
People give you their opinions all the time, whether you asked for it or not. Whether you ...
January 2, 2021 -
The Smiling Idiot
Put a smile on your face, even if you don’t feel like it. Especially when you don...
January 1, 2021 -
Nothing Times Infinity
I get it. There are “bad” days. Days, on which you just don’t feel like ...
December 31, 2020 -
The Opposite of Right
There are things we want to achieve. In writing and in life. But sometimes, no matter how ...
December 30, 2020 -
The Grass Is Never Greener
The mind is always looking for the greener grass. It never stops. When you’re an asp...
December 29, 2020 -
The Risk-Security-Relationship
A lot of what we do every day is based on the assumption that what we do gives us less ris...
December 28, 2020 -
A Development Program In One Step
There’s never more than one step: THE NEXT STEP. No matter what you do. Everything h...
December 27, 2020 -
Goals vs. Directions
Goals are often misunderstood. People set goals for themselves and when they don’t r...
December 26, 2020 -
My Opinion About The Truth
There is no real truth (Okay, maybe enlightened people see things how they really are). Th...
December 25, 2020 -
What’s Your Arc?
As movie characters do, we too have our arcs. We go through certain phases of personal dev...
December 24, 2020 -
How Inspiration and “Sitzfleisch” Work Together
When I started out writing, I thought when I just concentrate on it enough, when I put in ...
December 23, 2020 -
Is David Lynch Right About Characters?
In his book about transcendental meditation David Lynch writes that you don’t need t...
December 23, 2020 -
When You Hate What You Wrote
Ever had the experience that while you write something you think it’s totally brilli...
December 22, 2020 -
What Will Others Think?
Ever heard that voice in your head when you were developing a character, ‘what will ...
December 21, 2020 -
Trapped By Emotions?
Ever had the experience that you were in the middle of a situation with rage or frustratio...
December 19, 2020 -
Feeling Overwhelmed? Look The Ball Into Your Hands!
Feeling overwhelmed? Again? Constantly? I get it. The things that we need to take care of ...
December 18, 2020 -
When Did You Last Celebrate Yourself?
We’re used to celebrate others. It’s the most normal thing. On their birthdays...
December 17, 2020 -
Facing The Page
Many writers fear it. Facing the page. I did too. But there is a different way to see it. ...
December 16, 2020 -
Everything Is A Moment
I’m sure you had that experience: You’re having a great day and suddenly somet...
December 16, 2020 -
Your Trailer vs. Your B-Roll
It’s easy to fall into the trap of judging the accomplishments of others by the best...
December 15, 2020 -
When You’re Right You’re Right
The mind focuses on whatever you tell it to focus on. So, when you tell it you can’t do ...
December 15, 2020 -
Can You Hear The Penny Drop?
Remember the times when you could go to a bar with friends (or people who you thought were...
December 14, 2020 -
Getting Unstuck… Again
Your characters don’t behave like they should, your structure doesn’t flow yet...
December 14, 2020 -
People Will Hate You
In the best case. Here’s why. If you try to please everyone, you’ll end up ple...
December 13, 2020 -
There Are No Judges
You know that feeling when you’ve worked on your book or script for hours and hours ...
December 13, 2020 -
No! You’re Doing It Wrong!
Try to remember the last thing in your writing that didn’t work out. How did you rea...
December 11, 2020 -
Is Your Book Cover Misleading?
Book covers give expectations. If you browse through the book store and take a look ...
December 10, 2020 -
What’s On Your Cover?
Covers give expectations. There is the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” bu...
December 10, 2020 -
You’re All Alone
Yes, when you’re writing. You’re sitting alone at the desk and it’s just you and the...
December 8, 2020 -
Stop Writing! You Have Failed.
How often do you ask yourself if you should stop writing? Once a day? Every now and then? ...
December 8, 2020 -
But What Do I Love?
How often do you worry about if you really want or should be a writer? How often are your ...
December 8, 2020 -
Find My iPhone
Sometimes we get lost in our lives. In our books, our stories. We see things we thin...
December 4, 2020 -
What’s Your Choice?
You can always choose. Somewhere inside you you know that. You just might fear the consequ...
December 4, 2020 -
The Paradox of Creativity
You know the saying, “less is more”. Often, things seem to work in contradicto...
December 2, 2020 -
When To Switch To Another Idea
I bet you know this very well: You are working on your draft when you get a new idea about...
December 2, 2020 -
The Pain of Typing Up A Handwritten Draft
Have you ever had to type up a whole draft that you wrote by hand? It’s tedious, right? ...
December 2, 2020 -
Will It Take Courage?
I’m a movie buff. So every now and then I watch interviews of actors from their curr...
December 2, 2020 -
When will they take your writing seriously?
When will you finally reach that goal? When will you have that book finished? Your first s...
December 2, 2020 -
I Love Dead Ends
Dead ends are usually just the moment before a big breakthrough. If you learn to welcome t...
September 19, 2020 -
You haven’t written today
There are days when you don’t feel like writing. This might be for different reasons...
July 27, 2020 -
It never stops
How does this situation sound to you: You’re sitting at your desk, writing, and somehow ...
July 22, 2020 -
This is what’s going to happen
The things you worry about will not happen. And if they do happen someone will help you. A...
July 15, 2020 -
Is the cure worse than the illness?
Imagine this: You are an aspiring writer with a day job. You need the job to keep yourself...
July 14, 2020 -
The Kobe Mentality
The Mamba Mentality is all about focusing on the process and trusting in the hard work whe...
July 9, 2020 -
What is fear?
Fear can be a great obstacle to creativity. Everybody is afraid of something. Of course. W...
June 19, 2020 -
The value of nothing
Go through your to-do-lists of the last weeks or months. I bet there is something missing ...
June 8, 2020 -
How To Write Your Way Out Of The Dark Woods
Imagine you’re taking a walk in the woods and you try out a new path. One you haven&...
June 3, 2020 -
What would Jesus do?
We all have our heroes. Idols we look up to and try to model. If you’re a writer for...
May 28, 2020 -
The mess you’re in right now
Let’s take one of your struggles right now on your way to becoming a professional writer...
May 27, 2020 -
The One who wins against nine others
Let’s suppose you go to a party. You’re all dressed up, and you wear a new dre...
May 26, 2020 -
Jack of no trades
I’m sure you know those kinds of people, no matter what you’re talking about, they jus...
May 22, 2020 -
Successful Writers Have Superpowers
When you listen to a bunch of writer’s interviews, you’ll notice that there ar...
May 21, 2020 -
Is overthinking your thing?
I don’t know a lot about cooking, but I can put together a decent meal that tastes o...
May 19, 2020 -
How dirty are you?
My experience with creativity: Creativity is already there. You already are a creative per...
May 16, 2020 -
This is bad, right?
In the movie “Charlie Wilson’s War”, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character recites a ...
May 15, 2020 -
When you do something else you miss writing. But when you sit down to write you want to do something else.
When you do something else you miss writing. But when you sit down to write you want to do...
May 14, 2020 -
How trigger-happy are you?
I have a friend who loves to complain. And it’s always the same topics that set him ...
May 12, 2020 -
One of Those Days
There are days when just nothing seems to work out. Everything you touch seems to go down ...
May 11, 2020 -
Getting lost on Pinterest? Again?
“But I’m researching”, you might argue. Yes, maybe you are. And maybe yo...
May 10, 2020 -
How Much Courage Will It Take?
Let’s suppose you want to go a certain way. But you can’t. Because there is a ...
May 9, 2020 -
Be bad!
Writing freely is easy. What keeps most people from doing it is their perfectionism. They ...
May 8, 2020 -
Make Inspiration Find You
There is this mystical concept about inspiration that nobody really can explain. But every...
May 6, 2020 -
How to Get Sh*t Done
When I was in Costa Rica last summer I went to a co-working space to work on one of my scr...
May 5, 2020 -
My Creativity Spark
Sometimes when I feel I need a little inspiration I will watch a short video that inspires...
May 3, 2020