Writing Classes
Beth Lapides Beth Lapides

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.

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The Keep Things
Beth Lapides Beth Lapides

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.

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What People Are Saying
Beth Lapides Beth Lapides

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!”

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Sneak Peek: So You Need To Decide
Beth Lapides Beth Lapides

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.

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Joan Didion’s Egg
Beth Lapides Beth Lapides

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.

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It’s All Transitions
Beth Lapides Beth Lapides

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.

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