Description: Diaries of Mildred Cox Howes of Brookline and Chestnut Hill, 1896-1973, includes travel diaries for 1902, 1910-15, 1924, and 1925; and a yachting diary for the summer of 1901. Entries include accounts of time spent with family members such as her father William Emerson Cox, her mother Josephine Nickerson Cox, her husband Osborne "Howsie" Howes, her sister-in-law Edith Perkins Cox, her daughter Pricilla Howes Nickerson, and her governess Laura A. Young (know as Val) and time spent sailing. Travel accounts include camping trips, fishing, and hunting trips in Maine, Montana, and Canada and time spent aboard the yacht around Rhode Island.

This document recounts the development of my feature length horror screenplay "Woodwork," from the conception of the idea through the completion of three separate drafts. It attempts to inform the reader of the choices made that led to the subsequent changes in each draft, as well as examining elements of the story (or backstory) that remain absent in the final draft. It also describes the evolution of myself as a writer over the nearly two-year period between first picking up this idea and finalizing a third draft for presentation to graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting.