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Writing for School and Hobby

Most of my writing over the years has been for university assignments. More recently, I have submitted articles to philatelic (stamp collecting) publications.

My Capstone Portfolio

When a college student approaches graduation, she is encouraged to compile all of her best writing and post it to one place where others may read those documents. I did this in March of 2022 by placing them in my pre-existing commercial site (Anon E Mouse Cachets) where I sell philatelic items called First Day Covers. You can view them on my Capstone page, and/or see a few sample articles offered below.

Twelfth Night Movie v. Shakespeare's Original

This is a paper describing certain elements of the most recent film version of Shakepeare's play "Twelftgh Night; or, What you Will." It points out the liberties that film directors or screen writers may take when converting literature to a visual medium.

  
A movie poster and a stamp relating to Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."

My Mom the General

I learned the memoir approach to writing in a Creative Nonfiction course. This sample from that course is about my mother, who worked in her forties towards a dream of building small homes that she designed. The paper is titled My Mom the General, meaning general contractor.

     
In the shovel pose above, she wears her typical work uniform. The floor plan is one of several single story homes she designed. Alice worked in partnership with her electrician husband Bill; they named their business "A and B Builders."

Writing for Philately

I also write about specialized areas of stamp collecting, aka philately. Here is an article sent to the American First Day Cover Society journal "First Days." When this Steinbeck article was published in May 2022, the layout was different and the illustrations were larger.

  
These are two of several mock first day covers I designed to illustrate the points in the article.