Kristina Atkins
WUW: The Oh, Yeah Edition
I kinda forgot about blogs last week. On Thursday afternoon I pulled up Feedly, and was like, “Oh yeah! Blogs! Hey!” WHAT I’M READING...
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Kristina Atkins
- Sep 25, 2013
- 2 min
What’s Up Wednesday: Starting Revisions Edition
My books arrived at the library last Thursday! Yay! Picking up three books from the library is pretty close to Christmas for me. I...
Kristina Atkins
- Sep 18, 2013
- 3 min
What’s Up Wednesday: The Finished Book Edition
Strangely, nothing right now. I’m waiting on a few books from my library, namely Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi, The Ask and the Answer by...
Kristina Atkins
- Aug 21, 2013
- 2 min
What’s Up Wednesday: Mild Panic Attack then Oh-Wait-I-Should-Be-Okay Edition
I’m going to start Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell later today and I’m pretty excited. I’ve heard really good things about it, so I...
Kristina Atkins
- Aug 14, 2013
- 2 min
What’s Up Wednesday: The Ongoing Saga Edition
I finished Seraphina a few days ago and wow. That book blew my mind. And also depressed me at first because I kept floundering in these...
Kristina Atkins
- Aug 7, 2013
- 3 min
What’s Up Wednesday: Two Year Anniversary Edition
Seraphina by Rachel Watson. It’s awesome and the writing is wonderful. Aaaand the other night I had a fun dream that Rachel Hartman was...
Kristina Atkins
- Jul 17, 2013
- 2 min
What’s Up, Wednesday?
DON’T FORGET TO UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARKS!! MY NEW BLOG ADDRESS AS OF 7/24/13 WILL BE KRISATKINSWRITES.WORDPRESS.COM. (you can access it...
Kristina Atkins
- Jul 10, 2013
- 2 min
What’s Up Wednesday
DON’T FORGET TO UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARKS!! MY NEW BLOG ADDRESS AS OF 7/24/13 WILL BE KRISATKINSWRITES.WORDPRESS.COM. (you can access it...
Kristina Atkins
- Jun 10, 2013
- 1 min
UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARKS
Hi Ladies and Gentlemen! First of all, I’ve been doing this: “Taking time to live life will only inspire your work.” I actually have been...
Kristina Atkins
- May 24, 2013
- 2 min
Oh. My. Freaking. Gosh.
That’s what I said when I saw THIS: Y’ALL!* This is a YA festival. IN MY HOMETOWN! Charleston, SC, aka the coolest city in the world. And...
Kristina Atkins
- Apr 16, 2013
- 1 min
Love.
I was feeling a bit discouraged about my book last week. Then I met with my new YA writing group on Friday. They. Are. Awesome. I love...
Kristina Atkins
- Mar 28, 2013
- 1 min
WSY: The Big Battle
Okay, so I don’t really know if this is a big battle for anyone else, but it’s been a long-held question in my mind: What do I love more:...
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
- Mar 14, 2013
- 3 min
What I Learned about Writing from Lost
I was kinda late to the Lost party. Eight years (from the premiere) to be exact. See, when Lost aired I was in college and had no time...
Kristina Atkins
- Mar 7, 2013
- 1 min
Holy Thursday Night, Batman!
Something I dislike about writing posts ahead of time and scheduling their publication is I forget that I posted that week, and then I...
Kristina Atkins
- Feb 24, 2013
- 1 min
Six Sentence Sunday
Turbo and I are off to Utah to visit friends and family this week, so an early, easy post is on order: Six Sentence Sunday!...
Kristina Atkins
- Feb 20, 2013
- 1 min
What Say Ye: Fear
This edition of What Say Ye? has two parts! First, what makes you afraid to write? I had a dream one night that some dude had an awesome...
Kristina Atkins
- Feb 12, 2013
- 2 min
I Just. I Just. Gah!
So, I read A Memory of Light last week. I flew through it. I couldn’t put it down. 908 pages of non-stop battle. This was it! The...
Kristina Atkins
- Jan 31, 2013
- 2 min
A New Approach
At least, I think it’s new. Perhaps I had these intentions when I originally received the critique from my brother, but my addled brain...
Kristina Atkins
- Jan 23, 2013
- 2 min
Awesome Things
First of all, I realized that I didn’t do a recap on my 2012 goals. I mean, I failed all of them, but I post goals in part to be held...
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