Lisa Colozza Cocca is the last author to be featured in this series. Her book is PROVIDENCE.
Tagline: Sometimes you have to run away from home to find it.
Advice: Remember teens are people first with the same range of emotions we all have, but often intensified. Write from your heart if you want to connect to the hearts of your readers.
What Reviewers say:
“Becky’s sweet-as-honey first-person narrative voice suits the dialogue-driven story well–she is an uncomplicated heroine, resourceful and completely without self-pity.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Rosie, Becky, and Georgia Rose create a family built of mutual need, love, and kindness in this gentle tale of life in nostalgic small-town America…. Cocca portrays a community of sympathetic characters…who believe in the promise of life’s second chances.” —Booklist
You can find Providence on sale here. And now under #kindleunlimited it free to download.
Find Lisa at
www.lisacolozzacocca.com
Thanks so much, Lisa. Writing from the heart is great advice to writers of all genres.
Here’s some others on this very topic. While they don’t say it the same way that Lisa does, I interpret their words to mean the key to readers’ hearts is within the writers’ hearts.
“It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.”
—Jack Kerouac, WD
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
—Virginia Woolf
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway
So that’s a wrap on Advice from the Pros. I’ve enjoyed hosting ten authors over these months and hope you’ve enjoyed meeting them or learning more about them and their books.
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How I Found The Right Path
It’s here! Download it for Free and read what 60 writers have to share about their writing/publishing experience.
Birgit says
Congrats to Lisa! It is difficult to get to the heart of a young teen's emotions so the book sounds great.
Sherry Ellis says
Very cool necklace! I'm glad How I Found the Write Path is out. We'll enjoy reading each other's letters!
Mark Noce says
Whoa…steampunk jewelery…neato:)
Karen Lange says
It's always nice to meet other writers. Appreciate you featuring some here. Downloaded The Write Path the other day. Looking forward to reading it!
Have a great weekend! 🙂
Editors At Work says
Great, eye-catching cover. And love the tips. Congrats on the release!
S.K. Anthony says
"…teens are people first with the same range of emotions we all have, but often intensified." Ha! so true! lol
Awesome advice and quotes 😀
S.K. Anthony: So You Wanna Be a Writer?
M Pax says
I like the Maya Angelou quote a lot. Agony, indeed. 🙂 Congrats to Lisa!
T. Drecker says
Gorgeous necklace. And even better advice. The cover is really interesting!
DEZMOND says
congrats to lady Cocca on her book! Isn't cocca a plant from which cocaine comes? 🙂
Denise Covey says
Love that necklace. Got my copy of Write Path. Sounds like a great book.
Lynda R Young says
Great advice from the pros!
And I love that book cover!
DMS says
What a tagline! Sounds like a great book. I love that necklace too. 🙂 Awesome advice!
~Jess
Theresa Milstein says
Actually, can you tell me where you got the picture?
Theresa Milstein says
I'm really excited to be a part of How I Found the Write Path.
I want that necklace!
Al Diaz says
I think I still have the emotions of eight centuries of teenagers all gathered inside a dragon body. 🙂
Arlee Bird says
Sometimes you have to run away from home to find it.
I love that statement because it's so true. I think it was true for me. In fact a used a similar statement in an essay I wrote several years ago.
Lee
Tossing It Out
Medeia Sharif says
The compilation is fantastic.
Teens do feel intensely.
C. Lee McKenzie says
So glad I was there once. So glad I'm not there now.
Beverly Stowe McClure says
Great advice, Lisa. Congratulations on your book.
The quotes are wonderful too. I got a copy of How I Found the Right Path. Love success stories.
C. Lee McKenzie says
They always make me happy, too.
Yvonne Ventresca says
Loved the series, Lee.
Yvonne
C. Lee McKenzie says
I was really glad you could be a part of it.
Joylene Nowell Butler says
Awesome! I'm seeing Write Path everywhere! How exciting is that! Wow, three exclamation marks; must mean good news.
C. Lee McKenzie says
It does seem to be out and about!
Carol Kilgore says
I love the quote from Maya Angelou 🙂
C. Lee McKenzie says
Wish she were around to create more.
Michelle Wallace says
Congrats to Lisa. I love that tagline. I'll check out her book.
"…the key to readers' hearts is within the writers' hearts." That about sums it up. A heart to heart experience.
Downloaded my copy of How I Found The Write Path.
C. Lee McKenzie says
Interesting reading!
Birgit says
How true to up the angst when writing from the view of a teen. Congrats in highlighting all the people and those quotes. Hemmingway seemed to sum it up
C. Lee McKenzie says
Angst is all part of growing up, I guess. That means I still have some growing up to do. 🙂
Hilary Melton-Butcher says
Hi Lee and Lisa – yes sometimes we need to change tack don't we .. and see things from the other side of the fence – good luck to Lisa ..
I've picked up my Kindle copy … cheers Hilary
C. Lee McKenzie says
Thanks, Hilary. I know Lisa appreciates the support.
Bish Denham says
I agree, we do have to plug into our own teen aged angst to really be able to convey it.
C. Lee McKenzie says
Fortunately, most of us who write YA have a ton of that angst to recall. 🙂
Loni Townsend says
You did great with the Pros series. Thanks for bringing us all of that great information.
C. Lee McKenzie says
I'm glad you liked it, Loni. I think series such as this are fun and interesting on a blog.
Cherie Reich says
Great advice! It's very true about teens.
C. Lee McKenzie says
Indeed it is.
Sarah Foster says
Great advice from Lisa. I just have to remember being a teenager to know how true this is.
Love that Hemingway quote!!
C. Lee McKenzie says
Thanks, Sarah. I liked Lisa's contribution to this series.
Melissa says
Very good advice!
Being the mother of three teens, I try very hard to remember that when they act… 'intense.' 😛
C. Lee McKenzie says
I guess they're either intense or asleep. That's how I remember being a teen.
Catherine Stine says
Congrats to Lisa. That's a very nice Kirkus review.
C. Lee McKenzie says
Kirkus is always important in the review department.
Natalie Aguirre says
Great advice about teens. And awesome tagline. Good luck to Lisa!
C. Lee McKenzie says
I must practice writing those things.
Leandra Wallace says
I love that cover w/the sun and the train. Also, the necklace, pretty! And I love that Hemingway quote, sums up writing quite well. 🙂
C. Lee McKenzie says
Thanks, Leandra. I liked the cover, too. Different.
Heather Holden says
Writing from the heart is definitely great advice! If we don't care about what we're writing, no one else will, either…
C. Lee McKenzie says
That's for sure.
Mason Canyon says
I love the tagline: Sometimes you have to run away from home to find it. That says a lot. Wishing Lisa much success.
C. Lee McKenzie says
I plan to read this one to find out what that's all about.
L. Diane Wolfe says
If you write about young people you have to up the angst.
I love that steampunk heart.
C. Lee McKenzie says
Me, too. Seemed to be a very writerly heart, indeed.
TBM says
Yes! They all say it well. Hemingway really gets to the point quickly like normal.
C. Lee McKenzie says
Guess that's why he was such a success. Man of few words, but all meant something.
Nick Wilford says
Excellent advice. Excited for the release of Write Path.
C. Lee McKenzie says
I'm reading it and enjoying the stories.
Alex J. Cavanaugh says
Same emotions only intensified – like a thousand times!
Got my copy of Write Path.
C. Lee McKenzie says
Interesting to read the different stories, isn't it?