Hi all!
Now the feedback on the picture dilemma was very insightful. I received a lot of emails and all of them was positive. The main theme was “Keep the pictures!” The reasons given were from “...giving a picture of a country I can never visit,” to “... the pictures show the beauty of a country that I will never see...” and “It enhance the story by showing the scene described.”
There was one or two that said that they just skip past the pictures BUT keep the pictures.” (I know from experience that I also, when reading certain stories, “skip past certain paragraphs”... LOL!) We all do it.
So, the conclusion: I will keep the pictures but maybe just limit it to three or four and focus more on the landscape.
One reader went into a discussion of how he downloads the stories, so he just gets the story. His way was to download a text file and then convert it to his e-reader software. Well, that is one way of doing it.
While I am writing this, in the background, I am rendering a full HD picture for chapter 4 with Lena asking Ruan: “How do we fly from here, hmm… genius?” The expression on her face is sort of sarcastic. The picture is 88% complete and took 35 minutes 36 seconds so far...
In the meantime, I have finished the story to the satisfaction of the advice from my editors. There is now 17 chapters. I want to upload it as soon as possible, but there is one little snag. In two weeks, we are going down to the KZN South Coast for a two-week holiday and with the “terrorists” home and “Honey, did you get...” commands/requests, time to get the chapters ready for posting are a little limited.
But don’t worry. I will keep to my Monday schedule and where I can, I will upload a chapter during the week.
Here is chapter 4 of “Whispers in the Forest” for your enjoyment.
Until Monday next week...
All the best and God bless!
Bye 4 now!