Road Trip Wednesday #54: Blame It On The Wildwinds

Welcome to our 54th Road Trip Wednesday!

Road Trip Wednesday is a "Blog Carnival," where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question and answer it on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.

We'd love for you to participate! Just answer the prompt on your own blog and leave a link in the comments - or, if you prefer, you can include your answer in the comments.

This Week's Topic:

"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

and be sure you marked "yes" on the entry form for an extra chance to win!

Emilia: “SUCH a cop-out answer, man. But... okay. Hear me out."

Michelle: “Like most crazy things, I don't regret doing it for a second..."

Kate: “I'm more a Grace than a Mandarin."

Amanda: "A constant stream of crazymaking wind . . ."

Kaitlin: "You can blame it on the wildwinds."

Kristin O: "It wasn't crazy. It wasn't even risky. But it was liberating..."

Kirsten: "Here's the strangest thing of all: my final project for that freshman year fiction class was a short story set in small-town Wyoming, about a girl named Grace who would give anything to be like the town's bad girl, Mandarin."

Road Trip Song of the Week:
“Blame It On The Tetons" by Modest Mouse

Next week’s topic:
November's Best Book

Kate Hart

Kate is the author of After the Fall, coming January 24, 2017 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A former teacher and grant writer, she now owns a treehouse-building business in the Ozarks and hosts the Badass Ladies You Should Know interview series.

Posts by Kate

27 comments:

Pam HarrisNovember 17, 2010 at 9:18 AM
We are SOO embarrassed to share this, but we'd do anything to win Like Mandarin. :)

http://seepamwrite.blogspot.com/2010/11/dine-and-dash.html
Kara MustafaNovember 17, 2010 at 9:23 AM
Yay!

http://kara-mustafa.blogspot.com/2010/11/rtw-bringing-crazy.html
ErinnNovember 17, 2010 at 9:30 AM
I've got my crazy pants on... or my socially awkward pants-- they are leggings with stirrups and leg warmers.

http://somethingelsetodistractme.blogspot.com/2010/11/road-trip-wednesday-crazy-pants.html
Holly DodsonNovember 17, 2010 at 9:45 AM
On a more serious note...

www.hddodson.blogspot.com
Rebecca BNovember 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM
I think I just embarrassed myself for the ages with this post:

http://vicariousreader.blogspot.com/2010/11/rtw-i-did-something-crazy.html
KTNovember 17, 2010 at 10:21 AM
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KTNovember 17, 2010 at 10:22 AM
Stealing furniture, acting like Hermione, and SUPER EXCITED for Deathly Hallows at midnight...

http://ktwip.blogspot.com/
Claire DawnNovember 17, 2010 at 10:33 AM
I'm crazy all the time. It's ahrd to pick one thing. lol.
Shari GreenNovember 17, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Most of the wild 'n' crazy things I've done are pretty small scale, but one thing does stand out: when I was 20, I made a quick decision to move north -- way north, like, darn-close-to-the-arctic-circle north -- and lived in a tiny mining camp there for three years. Haven't regretted it for a second. ;)
KatyNovember 17, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Oh, boy... loved this topic, and love reading everyone else's posts!
Here's mine:

www.amongdahlias.wordpress.com
Kirsten HubbardNovember 17, 2010 at 11:06 AM
I'm SO EXCITED to read these. definitely a topic close to my heart -- the wildwinds, and the crazy!
Inspired KathyNovember 17, 2010 at 11:10 AM
I'm pretty much the least spontaneous least crazy person there is. I think I need to live a little more because nothing is coming to mind.
Jennifer HoffineNovember 17, 2010 at 12:07 PM
Here's my entry:

http://jennhoffine.blogspot.com/2010/11/road-trip-wednesday_17.html
Alicia GregoireNovember 17, 2010 at 12:17 PM
I'm probably the least crazy person out there since I have to plan that too... http://bit.ly/bYwCcI
Abby StevensNovember 17, 2010 at 12:19 PM
I can be very serious, so it was hard to think of one at first, but then I remembered... well, you'll have to click to find out. :D

Here's mine!
Sarah EnniNovember 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM
FUN topic this week!

http://bit.ly/dyrX8l
Jus AccardoNovember 17, 2010 at 2:09 PM
I love this topic! Here's mine :)

http://www.jusaccardo.com/2010/11/rtw-blame-it-on-the-wildwinds/
AnonymousNovember 17, 2010 at 2:26 PM
This was too good to resist! (And I'd love to get my mitts on that arc!!)
http://danaalisonlevy.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/rtw-ya-highways-bring-out-your-crazy/
AngieNovember 17, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Woohoo! I did one!

http://addktd2books.blogspot.com/2010/11/rtw-something-completely-crazy.html
ArianaNovember 17, 2010 at 3:52 PM
I'd love to win a copy... here is my entry! I had fun writing it.

http://wolfinthefable.blogspot.com/2010/11/rtw-wildwinds.html
Stephanie S. KuehnNovember 17, 2010 at 6:59 PM
Here ya go!

http://www.stephaniekuehn.com/2010/11/rtw-crazy-depends-on-where-you-start.html
JordynNovember 17, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Is it totally sad that I can't think of many "crazy" things I've done? PROBABLY SO.

I'll try to think of something & come back to this.
AnonymousNovember 17, 2010 at 8:34 PM
Here are my embarrassingly wild moments.

www.wheresmypencil.wordpress.com
BriNovember 17, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Fun topic!

http://briallison.blogspot.com/2010/11/road-trip-wednesday-its-enough-to-make.html
RavenNovember 18, 2010 at 12:05 AM
It looks I need to take How to be Crazy 101 classes. lol.

Apparently, I'm not as wild as some of my characters are:

http://raven-ashley.blogspot.com/2010/11/rtw-only-living-are-crazy.html
TerryLynnJohnsonNovember 18, 2010 at 7:56 AM
I'm a little late to the party, but I'll post a crazy tomorrow
http://terrylynnjohnson.blogspot.com
RavenNovember 20, 2010 at 9:11 AM
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