Kristina Atkins
WUW: Vacation killed my productivity
What’s Up Wednesday is an easy and fun weekly blog hop that’s hosted by Jaime Morrow and Erin L. Funk. All you do is answer the four main...
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Kristina Atkins
- Mar 22, 2013
- 1 min
What Do Your Characters Want?
I’m in the midst of the Revision Cave*, and the other day I remembered some very wise words from my professor, the fabulous Leslie...
Kristina Atkins
- Feb 23, 2012
- 1 min
It Came!
Remember how I made a (REALLY BIG) deal about how my thesis hadn’t yet arrived? You know what’s funny? It came the next day and I didn’t...
Kristina Atkins
- Jan 10, 2012
- 2 min
So … I’m done
And it’s kind of a weird feeling. For the first time ever in my life, I could be done with school for good. (I say ‘could’ because I...
Kristina Atkins
- Dec 9, 2011
- 1 min
Write Until Something Surprises You
My fabulous prof, Leslie Pietrzyk, reminds us of this advice at every residency. It’s become one of my favorite mantras. (And...
Kristina Atkins
- Sep 15, 2011
- 4 min
Why I Chose to Get a Low-Res MFA
I’m going to break this post down into two parts: why I decided to get an MFA, and why I went with a low residency program. I would’ve...
Kristina Atkins
- Aug 15, 2011
- 2 min
Wear Your Heart on Your Page
One of the best compliments ever given to me about my writing also served as a great check to me. My former professor, the ridiculously...
Kristina Atkins
- Aug 3, 2011
- 2 min
My First YA Highway RTW Post!
The topic this week: “The Five Senses. How you use them in your writing, how you are inspired by them, pictorial essays, that character...
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