Breaking the comfort zone, and GISHWHES

by Laura Anne Gilman

Last year, in a fit of what I thought was temporary insanity, I decided to join GISHWHES, also known as the Greatest Internet Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen, an event founded by actor Misha Collins. It’s a seven-day-long group event that asks you to abandon shame, modesty, and common sense in the frantic goal to complete a list of increasingly insane tasks, some simple, some immensely complicated, all of them asking you to be ridiculously creative and utterly fearl...