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8 July 2007

Writings

 

Cute Little Store
is my first published book and is available at Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com
It's about all the ups and downs of those first few years in retail. My retail business, The Pot and Bead, served as the inspiration and much of the information for this book. A sequel is in the works!
In the meantime, the story is on going at the Cute Little Store Blog.
Thanks for reading!

Blogs!
All my recent "public" writings are in blogs right now...

Two Lessons I Learned in College
An essay for a website that help high-school students make the transition to college.

Getting Started In Genealogy
An article that was published in the May 2004 issue of Washington Parent and was available online (I'm trying to find another link to it or somehow get it back...).
May 2004

"Look before you leap"
An article I wrote on being careful before starting your own business for a local website.
April 2004

Aerobraking to Lower Apogee in Earth Orbit
A paper on a satellite program from a previous job that I was involved in working on / writing.

Why I'm disappointed with my PDA...
An article on Handspring's Visor and the Springboard module concept.
Feb 2001

Lunch
One fo my first "completed" robot type stories. Inspired by an actual lunch I had last year.
Feb 2000

"An essay and conversation that happened one day sitting on the beach"
I think my title says it all.
Nov 1999

The Next Generation of Gravity Wave Detectors
a "technical article" also for my English 393 class [Summer '95]

Recent Ideas on the Formation of the Galaxy
a paper I did for my first astronomy class at UMCP. Kinda has a "book report" feel to it

The Formation of the Solar System
a second paper for the same class

Assign #2 / Exercise #2
this and the next three writings were all exercise for the creative writing class I took in college. I'm going to eventually see if I can find out what the assignments actually were.

Assign #3 / Chapter #8
this is one of my favorite short little writings...

Assign #4 / Chapter #6
this is what became later one of the prototypes for my final story.

Chapter #9
me thinks the point of this assignment was to have a dialog only

Prototype for final story
a first prototype for a final story for that creative writing class. If you're a Zappa fan, this might be fun...

Final prototype for final story
my final attempt at a final story for that creative writing class. I'm honestly not sure which I wound up using. Completely different from one above.

Essay on Frank Zappa
an essay I wrote for English 101 on the man.

Essay #6
an essay I wrote for English 101. I don't remember the assignment, but I do know that the story was based on a dream I had the night before.

Matter-Antimatter Propulsion Systems
a paper I did as a science project in 11th grade. Amazingly, I did receive an honorable mention award. When I started studying physics "for real" at Maryland, I realized that everything in this paper is wrong. It was a good try at the time, tho. One of the things I would really like to do is go back and edit it with some "real" physics.

Matter-Antimatter Propulsion Systems Abstract
abstract that was required for the above paper

Aria
wrote this fantasy piece for a creative writing class I took in high school

Examining Our Gender Based Society Through Ursula K. LeGuin's book The Left Hand of Darkness
term paper for senior year high school english class. Was required for graduation. I think I got a 98 out of 100 on it.

Piece of Fantasy Story
just trying to write...

All works are Unpublished Copyright by Adeena J Mignogna