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.
Congrats to Lisa! It is difficult to get to the heart of a young teen's emotions so the book sounds great.
Very cool necklace! I'm glad How I Found the Write Path is out. We'll enjoy reading each other's letters!
Whoa…steampunk jewelery…neato:)
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! 🙂
Great, eye-catching cover. And love the tips. Congrats on the release!
"…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?
I like the Maya Angelou quote a lot. Agony, indeed. 🙂 Congrats to Lisa!
Gorgeous necklace. And even better advice. The cover is really interesting!
congrats to lady Cocca on her book! Isn't cocca a plant from which cocaine comes? 🙂
Love that necklace. Got my copy of Write Path. Sounds like a great book.
Great advice from the pros!
And I love that book cover!
What a tagline! Sounds like a great book. I love that necklace too. 🙂 Awesome advice!
~Jess
Actually, can you tell me where you got the picture?
I'm really excited to be a part of How I Found the Write Path.
I want that necklace!
I think I still have the emotions of eight centuries of teenagers all gathered inside a dragon body. 🙂
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
The compilation is fantastic.
Teens do feel intensely.
So glad I was there once. So glad I'm not there now.
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.
They always make me happy, too.
Loved the series, Lee.
Yvonne
I was really glad you could be a part of it.
Awesome! I'm seeing Write Path everywhere! How exciting is that! Wow, three exclamation marks; must mean good news.
It does seem to be out and about!
I love the quote from Maya Angelou 🙂
Wish she were around to create more.
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.
Interesting reading!
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
Angst is all part of growing up, I guess. That means I still have some growing up to do. 🙂
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
Thanks, Hilary. I know Lisa appreciates the support.
I agree, we do have to plug into our own teen aged angst to really be able to convey it.
Fortunately, most of us who write YA have a ton of that angst to recall. 🙂
You did great with the Pros series. Thanks for bringing us all of that great information.
I'm glad you liked it, Loni. I think series such as this are fun and interesting on a blog.
Great advice! It's very true about teens.
Indeed it is.
Great advice from Lisa. I just have to remember being a teenager to know how true this is.
Love that Hemingway quote!!
Thanks, Sarah. I liked Lisa's contribution to this series.
Very good advice!
Being the mother of three teens, I try very hard to remember that when they act… 'intense.' 😛
I guess they're either intense or asleep. That's how I remember being a teen.
Congrats to Lisa. That's a very nice Kirkus review.
Kirkus is always important in the review department.
Great advice about teens. And awesome tagline. Good luck to Lisa!
I must practice writing those things.
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. 🙂
Thanks, Leandra. I liked the cover, too. Different.
Writing from the heart is definitely great advice! If we don't care about what we're writing, no one else will, either…
That's for sure.
I love the tagline: Sometimes you have to run away from home to find it. That says a lot. Wishing Lisa much success.
I plan to read this one to find out what that's all about.
If you write about young people you have to up the angst.
I love that steampunk heart.
Me, too. Seemed to be a very writerly heart, indeed.
Yes! They all say it well. Hemingway really gets to the point quickly like normal.
Guess that's why he was such a success. Man of few words, but all meant something.
Excellent advice. Excited for the release of Write Path.
I'm reading it and enjoying the stories.
Same emotions only intensified – like a thousand times!
Got my copy of Write Path.
Interesting to read the different stories, isn't it?