Writing & Publication

A 10-month hands-on Ascend Specialty Track available exclusively for students enrolled in the Ascend Certificate Program for 0-15 credits.

Build Foundational Skills & Experience in Writing & Publication

The Ascend Writing & Publication Track provides sound, current teaching, training, and resources in all aspects of writing as a profession. Students will emerge from this track knowing industry language, professional expectations, and the actionable steps required to establish a writing career. 

What Will Students Learn in this Track?

Intro to Writing as a Profession

What it really takes to be a professional writer

What Are You Really Writing About?

Which audience needs to hear your message?

Intro to Marketing & the Business of Writing

Draft a Statement of Purpose, including a detailed description of your target audience.

What Does it Mean to “Serve your Audience” via Marketing?

Delivering tangible value through marketing and messaging

Marketing for Self and Traditional Publishing

Forms and purposes of marketing for authors

Writing in Action

Skillset sharpening, elevator pitches, and capstone projects

What is Included in a Proposal?

Nonfiction and fiction proposals

Launch

Submit your very own publishing proposal for feedback and determine your next steps.

Meet Your Instructor, Robynne Miller

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ROBYNNE MILLER holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction and Fiction and a B.A. in English Literature. Agented with Books and Such Literary, she is the author of more than ten books and countless articles and essays, including Finding Common Ground: One Octogenarian’s Quest to Help our Nation HealThe Three Faces of Nellie and her latest project, Tennessee Wildcat: On the Trail of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Mr. Edwards.

When she’s not writing, Robynne directs the Vision Christian Writers Conference at Mt. Hermon, coaches/mentors both beginning and advanced writers, works as a substantive editor, speaks at retreats, workshops, conferences, and events across the country, and teaches the professional writing track she developed for Unbound. She may or may not be slightly addicted to the musty smell of historic archives, where she blissfully rummages through land records, censuses, and newspapers, etc., hunting for previously unearthed tidbits of information.

She also enjoys adventuring with her amazing British husband and beautiful brood of adopted and biological children as well as leading worship, which she’s done for years in both the UK and the US.

Robynne has a passion for helping writers bring their stories and messages into the world, no matter where they are on their writing journeys.

But most of all, Robynne is utterly and unapologetically in love with the Savior who created, saved, and called her.

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