Kristina Atkins
RTW: Wide Open Spaces
This is going to sound kind of weird, but there is something about driving across the west that silences me in awe. Inspires me to...
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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 13, 2011
- 1 min
It’s in the Mail
My first assignment, that is! O:IHTMMFABFATVL is complete, except there was a tweak at the end: I mailed it today. It just wasn’t quite...
Kristina Atkins
- Aug 12, 2011
- 1 min
I Has the Tunnel Vision
Sorry for the lack of posts the last half of the week, but this has been me all week: Sleep? Food? Husband? My house is on fire?...
Kristina Atkins
- Aug 9, 2011
- 2 min
You Know What’s Hard?
Sure you do. Lots of things are hard! Wood, rocks, disguising yourself as Mickey Rooney. But the thing I’m thinking of is this: trying to...
Kristina Atkins
- Aug 8, 2011
- 2 min
Monday Morning Nonsense
Nothing like a full dose of nonsense first thing in the morning, eh? Today marks a great day for me: I am turning in my “two weeks”...
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...
Kristina Atkins
- Aug 3, 2011
- 2 min
What I Learned about Writing from (the perhaps mythical version of) Christopher Walken
I once heard a story that Christopher Walken never rejects a role he’s offered, no matter how bad. The story related that Christopher...
Kristina Atkins
- Aug 1, 2011
- 2 min
Post the First
Confession: I had to drink a lot of caffeine to write this post. Not because I didn’t get enough sleep last night. In fact, my problem...
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