This week's YA Highway Road Trip Wednesday is also a contest:
"The winds in Washokey make people go crazy."
That's the first line of Kirsten Hubbard's LIKE MANDARIN, and you can read the rest a few months early if you win our ARC giveaway! Post on your own blog about
a time you did something completely crazy
The funnest crazy thing I've done was participate in a huge scavenger hunt with around twenty of my friends in high school. I wasn't part of the group that stole a goat from the town's petting zoo, or in one of the two groups who caught each other taking magnetic stickers from different sides of the same student driver car, but my group did steal a road sign, post and all, driving down the road with it sticking out both sides until we made it to a group member's house and proper tools. I found out later that all our groups had the cops after us that night. That was, thankfully, the only time that's happened in my life.
Oh, and another fun crazy thing I did was wear a toga into a department store (we were heading for a pep-rally dress-themed basketball game). I couldn't believe all the looks we got, but the best part was when one of my guy friends hit another on the shoulder and said, "I told you not to wear that hat."
But the craziest thing I've done is send out my first five queries to agents. In hindsight (many rejections and two agents later), this wasn't that big a deal, but I broke out in hives for the first and only time in my life the week I did this crazy (some might say, insane) thing.
Queries! Oh my, queries! I didn't even think of that.
ReplyDeleteOh, sending out queries is definitely an act of craziness. :)
ReplyDeleteQuerying is definitely an act of insanity :)
ReplyDeleteStealing a sign post! I have thought of it many times, but never had the gumption to go out there and do it! Sounds like you guys had a hell of a scavenger hunt :)
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah - querying agents is totally nuts. In a whole different way!
Querying is TOTALLY crazy. But the good kind of crazy.
ReplyDeleteyep, must agree querying requires a substantial dose of crazy :)
ReplyDeleteI totally agree- sending out queries is sooo crazy. I felt the same way when I sent out my first. I could never, ever wear a toga in public. That is some crazy shiz!
ReplyDeleteSounds like some wild crazy fun!! God, I hope querying isn't crazy. I have enough craziness in my life with three kids. :)
ReplyDeleteI used to do many crazy or embarrassing things and now I can't seem to remember any of them. One crazy thing is I used to steal things from the grocery store. It's so weird to think about now, because I would never steal anything and I can't believe I used to do it.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment and advice on my blog post yesterday.
That's a great crazy memory story. Can't say I have one that tops that - or they are buried deep in my subconscious. Sending out queries is serious emotional stuff - I'm sure there are others who'v broken out in hives!
ReplyDeleteQuerying=megacrazy :D
ReplyDeletelove the toga in the department store lol