We were lucky to catch up with Lorenzo Zucchi recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Lorenzo , so happy you were able to devote some time to sharing your thoughts and wisdom with our community. So, we’ve always admired how you have seemingly never let nay-sayers or haters keep you down. Can you talk to us about how to persist despite the negative energy that so often is thrown at folks trying to do something special with their lives?
Well, it’s a good question. Sometimes I can’t sleep at night thinking about my next story and then I say to myself: don’t forget you already have written stories to be published that no one will care of, so why bother?
Because in the end I think I gave my writings a mission: to change the world a bit, step by step.
It’s not important my success in life, people who are ahead of time are rarely appreciated for what they deserve.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I write books every single day and they all look pretty much the same. This is certainly what I don’t want to do, to enter the stream and swim along the others. I try and do the opposite, breaking the rules of writing, creating new tropes for romance, but it’s difficult when you’re alone, as professionals who live out of a world certainly don’t want to disband it.
So I am doing something in the middle: different but not opposing the system,
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Certainly my best capacity is to invent. For that, I simply advice people to run around and listen and watch: half of my stories are born out of the daily life observation.
Then, a second quality I may have developed is Description. As I was first a traveler and then a writer, memories of places strongly influenced my capacity of the scene description. Of course this is easy as advice: if you travel, you’ll learn a lot of new things.
Third, I try and go out of a comfort zone as soon as it is established. As I am a barefooter, I learned to walk on many different surfaces. To develop this capacity, my advice is to do something different from time to time, escaping the routine. We are not here just waiting to die
Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?
Yes, for the very first time I decided to write a book set in a fictional future. Not only this is a challenge in terms of making that world a bit realistic, but also you need not to repeat situations that were brought already to the literature, such as Fahrenheit 431 or Hunger Games, just to say a couple of them. It will be my most difficult book to date, and I can’t wait to start writing it
Contact Info:
- Website: https://lorenzozucchilibri.wordpress.com/
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