The Writer of the Rusty Ruins

//clears throat//
            
            My favorite part was in chapter 2, when Mario and Luigi first came to the mushroom kingdom and were struggling to understand the craziness going on. I honestly think you have the makings of an excellent writer! Your descriptive narrative was enjoyable and the humor was excellent! Write on!
            
            //hehe, pun//

@RayKid7 Ten-hundred-thousand thank-yous! Your comments were the best thing to come home after a laborious day of work!
            
            As I said to my chummy compadre NintendoNatalie, I'm currently in the midst of a bad case of writer's block where it feels like I'm trudging through muck, writing-wise, and I can't promise when Chapter 6 will come out, besides the rather-nebulous date of  "soon".
            
            If you wouldn't mind, could you try telling me what you liked about this and where I need to improve while you hit the concession stand in this unforeseen intermission?

You're very, very welcome!! :)

@NintendoNatalie No problemo.
            
            Good to hear that I nailed Mario and Luigi's personalities and brotherly friendship, I did spend a considerable amount of time trying to make Mario and Luigi (along with Peach, Toadsworth, etc) fleshed-out characters while still keeping what makes them, "them", as well as mixing-in aspects of the Super Show to them, as well as their world(s).
            
            With that in mind, I'm pretty sure I based Spike on Sergeant Kooperman, yeah, he was in the back of my mind at least.
            
            Also glad to hear that it is exciting, re-reading the earlier chapters, Luigi's first personal exposure to the Fire Flower in particular, I do like how I kept the action going at a good clip.  It seems to be pretty hard, at least to me, to capture that madcap zaniness of the games, but I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of things.
            
            Again, many thanks.

            You're very, very welcome! :)
            
            Ooh, and thanks for adding "Her Crown" to your Reading List! :D
            
            
            I just really like the way you got Mario and Luigi's personalities across. I love the relationship between the Bros.
            
            
            Ooh- and Spike! Boy, he's harsh! :'D
            I'm guessing he's based on Sergeant Kooperman from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show. Well, he reminds me of him lot XD
            
            
            Ack! It's just so exciting to read! I don't really know how else to put it!
            
            
            
            Oh, and take as much as you need! We'll wait! After all, seeing from how amazing your book is so far- it'll be worth it!! :D
            
            
            
            

Haha, no problem! Call me what ever, in all honestly its really just a name. XD
            
            I didn’t see much of the live action segments. My
            mom somehow found just the animated parts and burned them to DVDS. And really? No SMB 3? You should give it another go, some of my favorite episodes are in that season. 
            
            I agree, the animated series weren’t all that great. Though I don’t think they were terrible. They still kept to the spirit of the game, unlike the Super Mario Brothers movie. Although when I sww the Sonic cartoons such as Sonic SATAM, I knew there was room for improvment. 
            
            I really couldn’t stand the Yoshi’s Islands episodes though. Maybe it was Yoshi’s voice. XP

@GrandStarlight P.S., I never got the phrase "So bad it's good". Art is very subjective, if you still liked something, does it still count as "bad"? Food for thought.

@GrandStarlight Likewise!
            
            I admit, a large chunk of why I love the show is that it has this sort of intentionally so bad it's good nature about it akin to Mystery Science Theater 3000, a feeling that everyone involved knew that no matter what, it was going to end up so-so at best, so they upped the cheesy jokes and odd acting "I can't, I'm allergic to mountains!" "Okay, wait here, but if you become lunch for a polar bear, don't blame us!" "P-P-POLAR BEAR?! LUNCH!?" 
            
            Let's not forget the fact that the live action segments look like they were deliberately on a spaghetti-string budget!  XD 
            
            Plus, for being made when there were only two Mario games out on home consoles (in the US anyway), the show is remarkably creative with it's landscapes, it might not be what Nintendo went on to create with Mario, but it's still cool in it's own right.
            
            Couldn't really get into Adventures of Super Mario Brothers 3 to be honest, but the background music remixed is pretty fun, alongside the cover of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (the instrumental version can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql27yGBFhq0)
            
            Hm. Come to think of it, I also like the background art, so maybe I'll give the series another go.
            
            Anyway, thanks for the follow Miss Star or whatever nickname you want. (ever since I saw (well, read) Phil Vischer, a guy I really look up to as both a writer and fellow Christian, do it, I've taken up a vow to do the same to every new follower I get out of kindness and such)!

@TacticalCat (in response to the comments you left in response to the one I left on Super Mario Galaxy) It seems that way but then again, I'm not you. (grins tongue-in-cheekishly)
            
            Oh trust me, I'm struggling to turn gameplay into written narrative without making thing tedious myself, and I still don't quite have things down to a science, through I like to think that I'm getting better and better, mostly by creating a story and wrapping the gameplay elements/level "landmarks" around it, sort of the reverse of what Tolkien did with his Middle-earth stories (in case you don't know, he created a map, set a course, and created stories around that.)
            
            It sounds like you have set it in a "Neo Universe" (http://thewriterfromtherustyruins.tumblr.com/post/153404478156/about-the-concept-of-a-neo-universe) of sorts. Which is fine by me. (By the way, do you have a tumblr?)
            
            Hee-hee! It's always that ONE sentence (or one-fourth or so of a chapter for me) isn't it? You have my pity.
            
            A more fleshed-out Rosalina sounds great! I too think that she's a little "off" in every game after Galaxy 1, and I would like to see what you can do to flesh-out all of them while still keeping what was great about them to begin with.
            
            If it helps, I have I few ideas for the Mario cast in my own story(ies) that--I think--do just that for you to take inspiration from.  I'm mostly satisfied with how Mario and Luigi turned out. (sorry if this sounds too much like a plug :( I'm just trying to help)
            
            Crazy Galaxy Fangirl huh? (laughs) Well as long as you don't want to blow up the world, I don't think that I mind.

Hehe, yes. That Muse, he's hanging above my head in one world and I've been scrambling to write down everything he's describing at me. But, with Galaxy, I've been a bit stuck lately. I also just returned to it from a busy month.
            
                 It's nice to meet another Galaxy player. I agree with you. The series is one of the best ideas to ever come from Nintendo. 
                 The nostalgia too! I relate. I've jumped galaxies to the Wii U recently, and it made me realize how much I truly adored the soundtrack and characters of the Wii era. When I encountered the new remixes of the Galaxy themes, I stared. And, now I listen Nintendo's songs almost daily. Writing the story enforced my status as a complete "console-peasant nerd", a name of which I'm rather proud. :) It's good to share it!
            
                 Pleased to meet such engaging conversation too!

@TacticalCat Why, thank you Miss TacticalCat (or do you like Miss Tactical or Miss Cat?) for the name-complement.
            
            Oh trust me, I do L.O.V.E. Super Mario Galaxy very much, with only Super Mario 64 being a nostalgia-induced 'tie', and the tone of the Mario story I'm working on follows the tone of Super Mario Galaxy to the best of my knowledge, since I regard that game the best Mario game in terms of tone.
            
            You're welcome for being the first writer in my visible list.
            
            About the slow updates, that's perfectly fine with me, for as Geri The Cleaner said in Toy Story 2: "You can't rush art!" Not to mention the fact that yours truly here has rather slow updates too. The Muse comes when it wants to and doesn't when it doesn't you know?