You Can Be a Winning Writer: The 4 C's Approach of Successful Authors - Craft, Commitment, Community, and Confidence

Praised as “the clearest roadmap to success,” the 4 Cs system has yielded spectacular results for CEOs and doctors, college professors and MFAs, playwrights and poets. For over ten years, Ms. Gelfand has presented the 4 Cs at conferences and book festivals, libraries and college lecture halls igniting writer’s enthusiasm.

From first draft to a marketable piece, the 4 Cs explores the writer’s inner and outer worlds making the argument for community as a key element to becoming a winning writer. Advice on building a fan base is followed by “Confidence,” a frank exploration of the blocks that keep manuscripts locked in the drawer.

With a splash of humor, a dose of empathy and real-world anecdotes, the 4cs guidance and wisdom will inspire and encourage writers at any stage of their career.

Including an appendix on post-publication strategies, essential resources and a directory of useful organizations, “You Can Be a Winning Writer” covers the landscape of becoming a successful author.
What you’ll learn inside this book

• How to structure a plan for success that works for you
• Discover new publishing resources
• Unravel the ‘self-publish’ or ‘agent’ dilemma
• How to ‘fire on all burners’ – craft, commitment, community and confidence
• How to stick with your dream when all roads are blocked
• What it means to be ‘a friend to writers’
• True stories of writer’s process, failures and setbacks