I asked his approval to post it. serving as his insight on the work behind the blog. So Guys sorry to indulge, but I take a nice compliment very dearly from someone I value and trust so well. Also kind thanks to Carlo for his diligent work on the Tripoli series. There is more coming soon.
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The comments below are from MG:
In the Tripoli stories, I especially liked Marek, the Polish buddy he first met there. He says he was 15. I liked the pic you posted with part 1 of Marek. The slighter, tanned boy in the water. I pictured Marek looking just like the boy in that picture. That's where the pictures really compliment the stories as only the Author knows what the boys in their stories really looked like in real life, the readers have to try and come up with an image in their own head of what the boys would potentially look like. Posting the pics with the story kinda does that part for you in giving you an image of the story characters straight away at the beginning so you can picture them looking that way immediately.
I think it's especially great that you take great care to select the right picture for each story. You don't want to just post any one picture on any story. The effectiveness is in the details, such as matching up the ages, skin colour, hair colour and the background scene (such as a beach, swimming, playing, on a bed etc.) it's great that you try and select pics that match the character descriptions in the story.
~MG~
Gosh, looking at the picture, I didn't know MG was so young!
ReplyDeleteEric,
ReplyDeleteI always wondered how nicely you choose pics to all stories published on this blog.
I am amazed with pics you have choosen to my stories, and wanted to express my gratitude for your fantastic job, which enhanced my storied, and added romantic atmosfere.
A big THANK YOU.
I wish to thank you also for your efforts to smooth my English, which is not my native language.
I told you that I am writing my book (in Polish for the moment) about friendship and brotherhood of four very young, different nationality boys, who meet at five, they pass together school and college, have a lot of adventures and they go through life together. They marry nice girls, but remain brothers.
If ever my book will be released, I will ask you to choose illustrations to it.