This is a fun way to have a chance of winning a doodle by the very talented Mike Allegra. Do read the other entries – some are truly jaw dropping!
I really like hosting blog contests!
And I really, really like doodling!
And I really, really, really like the fact that some people like my doodles!
So it is time once again for my semi-annual
WIN A DOODLE CONTEST!
Who will be the lucky winner? Will it be YOU?
The grand (and only) prize will be a custom made, one-of-a-kind, Mike Allegra doodle of ANYTHING YOU WANT!
“Anything?” you ask.
Yes, anything—provided that “anything” isn’t perverted. I’m a children’s book author, after all, so get your mind out of the gutter!
Otherwise, yes. ANYTHING!
Past contest winners have asked for all kinds of doodles. Like exotic birds…
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A caffeine gnome…
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A raven shapeshifter (whatever that is)…
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A woman doing yoga and holding a pen as the ghost of her dearly departed dog looks on…
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And (of course) that…
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Good luck in winning a doodle, Lynn.
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I:)
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What? He calls them doodles? I’d like to see the masterpieces he creates when he’s not holding a phone in one hand 🙂
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Ha! I know, he’s good isn’t he? Talented people like that often play down their skills I think, because to some extent it comes easily – I don’t mean he won’t have worked very hard at it but he obviously was born with a skill many of us don’t have 🙂
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He must fix blueprints in his brain and draw from them, but he would have had to practice hard to do that.
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Yes, you’re right. Talent only gets you so far – hard work and dedication do the rest 🙂
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We both know about that. My writing has certainly improved since I started practicing on a regular basis.
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Ah, yes. It only takes 10,000 hours to be an expert, apparently 🙂
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That’s the amount of hours my sister says it takes to be good artist, too. A mere bagatelle, my dear 🙂
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I’ve never quite been able to work out if I’ve done my 10,000 hours – possibly not yet, despite having written for 10 years now! And I suspect many of us could do something for this long and the end result still be patchy.
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My sister argues there’s no such thing as talent, only hard work and effort. I say that’s rubbish. As for the 10,000 hours, it depends on your aptitude, and your measure of ‘good’.
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I’m with you – hard work and effort count for a lot, but there has to be aptitude as well. I will never make a theoretical physicist, even if I dedicated 20,000 hours to study the subject – I just don’t have the talent for it. A bit of both is essential. And you’re right – it depends on your idea of good, but we all have different measures for that, don’t we?
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I don’t know about you, but I find as I improve, my idea of good steps away from me, always staying a little out of reach 😉
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Ah, how very right you are, Jane – I feel exactly the same way. But I suppose that’s a good thing. It means we’re always trying to improve on ourselves and our writing. Surely no writer ever sits back and thinks, ‘Ah, that’s just perfect.’
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I’ve written poems that I felt that way about – at the time. I’m currently editing poems that I thought were perfect when I wrote them three years ago. I’m working on one that I edited last year AND the year before…
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It never ends! Some things you just have to walk away from, though. I’ll never make some of my ideas as good as I hoped they’d be when I first had them!
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It doesn’t matter. With your imagination, new ideas will always come along
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Thank you Jane 🙂
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