Writing Portfolio

EXCERPT 01

Vampyres Across Time

This is an epic that I am working to get published someday. Vampyres Across Time is a supernatural realistic adventure set in 1985 London. It follows Rebeccah Sharpe-Hawkins, a lawyer’s secretary and her brother, 14-year-old Dwayne, as their normal world gets turned upside down after spotting something – or someone – strange on the road during an otherwise normal night.

EXCERPT 02

Ode to the Void

This is a poem I wrote for Wilson College’s newspaper, The Billboard, about my fiance’s and my cat, Ink. She is our first black cat, so I wanted to commemorate that with an ode, a poem specifically dedicated to praising its subject.

EXCERPT 03

Shadow Killer

This is a short story I began for my Thesis in Creative Writing course at Wilson College. This is another supernatural story, set in 1990s Peru with a cattle ranch. The mystery takes place when the main character, Karmina, finds out that her aunt’s cattle are being killed by an unknown entity.

EXCERPT 04

Games for the Soul

This was part of a two-part series I wrote for The Billboard. I wrote about games for mobile and for a console like an Xbox that were calming. The last thing a pandemic needed would have been stressful, high-energy games, so I did some research and found some games that were calming for me and shared them. The first part of the series was about mobile games.

EXCERPT 05

Games for the Soul

This is the second part of the two-part series I wrote about calming games to play for The Billboard. This article focused on console games. Since I have experience with an Xbox, I focused on games that could be played on the Xbox.

EXCERPT 06

Metal in the Mountains

This is a Billboard article I wrote about self-proclaimed “Bible Thumpers” who threatened and harassed the Metal in the Mountains music festival owners. They vandalized the event center where the festival was to be held and sent letters to the owners’ home.

EXCERPT 07

Study of Celtic Influence on the English Language

This is a research paper I wrote for my Language and Culture class at Wilson College about how the linguistics of the Celtic language influenced and helped shape modern English. For this paper, I had to find reliable resources and analyze them for information pertaining to my subject.

EXCERPT 08

Study of the Wheel of Fortune and Marlowe

I wrote this as part of my end-of-semester seminar paper for a January-Term class on Christopher Marlowe, the playwright. I analyzed how the concept of the Other, someone who is not like the rest of the crowd, is utilized by Marlowe to drive his protagonists into success and subsequently ruin. This kind of in-depth concept analysis required extensive research on both Marlowe and the concept of the Other. This meant not only reading into the plays Marlowe wrote and doing character analysis on his different protagonists, but also doing separate research on the Other and what it means as a literary tool.

EXCERPT 09

Rewilding and Bioethics

This was a paper I wrote for my bioethics class on the ethics of rewilding a population. There is arguably a significant impact of rewilding previously extinct or highly endangered species upon the current populations. My article analyzed this impact, both positive and negative, and provided supporting quotes and excerpts from other accredited sources, using appropriate citation techniques.

EXCERPT 10

Bioethics of Endangered Species and Extinction

Another paper I wrote for my Bioethics class dealing with endangered and extinct animals. I touch upon the spix macaw and the glaucous macaw, which are both extinct in the wild with very little attention. This paper required me to find appropriate scientific research papers to cite on the two different species.

EXCERPT 11

Social Media Captions

I have some examples of captions I’ve written that have been posted on Instagram and cross-posted to Facebook. I have a few of the names blocked out for privacy. Thanks again to Kylee Social for asking me to draft some of these captions!
The name I did leave is my own (@oliviarosepetalwritings). This is my business Instagram account and I can be followed there for more content!
These captions encapsulate my mastery of brand voice between three different industries.