{"id":39545,"date":"2022-11-22T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=39545"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:59:51","slug":"mesmerized-by-a-cheap-sketchbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/11\/22\/mesmerized-by-a-cheap-sketchbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesmerized by a Cheap Sketchbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My love affair with a three-dollar sketchbook meant for the juvenile market continues as I find myself doodling in it regularly. I keep it within reach in case inspiration strikes and I have to jot down a note or scribble a drawing. Fortunately inspiration has been visiting me regularly, and I am attributing it to the Out of This World<\/em> sketch pad with the glow-in-the-dark cover. There is some sort of magic baked into the pulp of its pages!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Over the decades I have amassed scraps, bits, pieces and scintillas of story ideas spread throughout a similarly chaotic collection of scraps of paper, sketchbooks or jotted down in the margins of notebooks. A lot of these notions collect dust in some corner of my cranium never to see the light of day. That is until now. These things are coming to life in what is probably my new Sketchbook from Heaven<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

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My love affair with a three-dollar sketchbook meant for the juvenile market continues as I find myself doodling in it regularly. I keep it within reach in case inspiration strikes and I have to jot down a note or scribble … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4953,49],"tags":[158,4274,726,9,3199,3661,5,3663,25,480,724,640],"class_list":["post-39545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodle-tuesday","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-analog","tag-cheap","tag-comic-book","tag-comics","tag-creature","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-usa","tag-vampire","tag-werewolf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-ahP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24433,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/10\/02\/another-cheap-sketchbook-bites-the-dust\/","url_meta":{"origin":39545,"position":0},"title":"Another Cheap Sketchbook Bites the Dust","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Llama Sketchbook: December 27, 2017 to September 29, 2018 Well, at least there is a llama beneath the stickers. 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