YA readers don't want long descriptions about blueberries they want action
Ruby granger #2 it’s acadaymia not acadeemia
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Exactly. It's not about the author just being able to write down how they feel, the hard part is being able to write in such a way that your audience is compelled to feel the same way too.
I think Ruby must struggle with just sitting there for longer than 20 mins. I wouldn’t watch a film in 20 minute chunks, would take 3 or 4 days each time, hmmmm...
It may be her mother's way of rationing the tv time during their childhood and maybe it stuck. I'm just making an uneducated guess but if that's the case, the fact that she can't justify watching one film in one sitting because it would waste time is worrying. I don't think one needs to be watching netflix or scrolling on their phone to relax but Ruby can do with less scheduling and more flexibility.
I agree with the above posters that she’s writing “for herself” rather than an audience. Nothing wrong with that, but what’s the point of publishing senseless nonsense with a million grammatical and spelling errors and poor style? She should keep a journal or a diary for her writing, she’s definitely not anywhere near ready for actual publishing, as seen with her previous “book”. It takes authors YEARS to publish a single novel — they plan and plan, draft, rewrite, reread, replan, rewrite, etc. She’s just spewing random streams of consciousness into google drive and boasting about her word count? It’s really not something to be proud of, it just shows you’re not thinking seriously about anything you’re writing lol
This bothers me so much. Not only is it not healthy to be able to take time off, but it's also a ridiculous way to watch a film. To my mind you can't appreciate a film properly watching it in 20 minute segments. Mind you, I bet Ruby's the sort of person to refuse to recognise film as a "proper art form" like books and poetry
so caught up in her Edwardian fantasies she's incapable of thinking of anything not technologically possible then as being art (apologies for the somewhat pretentious rant lol I'm a big cinephile and I live with a film studies student - this sort of thing winds us both up massively 
)I really don't like her whole '10,000' words in a day thing. Its quality not quantity. Its like when a kid at school writes loads, most of it probably isn't any good yet they think they're too of the class just cause they've wrote more.
I don't see how any one can watch a film that way either, if only in 20-30 minute intervals then what is the point? I always have to watch it all the way through, even if it isn't very good. People on GG were bringing up her possibly being on the spectrum so that might have something to do with it, the way she schedules her life is sooo unhealthy.This bothers me so much. Not only is it not healthy to be able to take time off, but it's also a ridiculous way to watch a film. To my mind you can't appreciate a film properly watching it in 20 minute segments. Mind you, I bet Ruby's the sort of person to refuse to recognise film as a "proper art form" like books and poetry
I read the Erimentha novel and very much got that impression of the main character. I don’t know how autobiographical that novel was (it felt like a combination of that and a fair bit of wish-fulfilment) but it did make me wonder. I have a relative who’s on the spectrum and they remind me a bit of Ruby, in the way that they managed well at school and home where they could create and follow a routine and have quite a lot of control, but when they went to uni they really struggled with the changes and schedules and never really settled. They came home every weekend and it just wasn’t a positive experience for them, kind of a failure to launch. They came home after uni and have never really done anything since, no real jobs or relationships. They’re happy enough in the world they’ve built but it’s hard on the family. I don’t think Ruby’s on the same level at all but I do see similarities.
The whole word count thing is very "NaNoWriMo"... not sure if you're all familiar with it but it's a challenge that involves writing a novel in a single month. It prioritizes the word count over the quality, can be good for drafting purposes... but it's also touted by influencers who are big on productivity like Ruby. It's very impressive to say you wrote 10,000 words in a single day and might boost your confidence, but it might also be terrible writing. To me, the word count only matters if you've got some kind of deadline or assignment.
I agree with this - I think she has high functioning autism, or perhaps aspergers. I could well be wrong but the need for routines, the fact she seems to struggle maintaining friendships / displaying annoyance and disapproval at behaviours of others, fear of behaviours e.g. thinking someone’s always trying to break in, focused obsessions e.g. constant hand washing, desire to be Harry Potter characters, not coping well with the transition to becoming an adult and always stating she still very much wants to be a child... it does have me thinking. I think seeing her in tears over the seminar where she couldn’t find the book / people had discussed points she wanted to mention really resurfaced this thought for me... Especially as autism is largely undetected in females in comparison to males...
Also, the book writing video... I found it quite difficult to hear her talk about the countryside. It upsets me how sheltered she really is...coming from a city area and seeing peoples experience of the lock down, loads of families sharing a single room, no access to the garden etc, then she demands she would never want any different. I know Ruby can’t help her background but hearing her spout on about blackberry jam and romanticising every little part of her day for inspiration... she lives a very idyllic lifestyle - I think she’ll really struggle without her incredibly crafted and protective bubble. I think she’d really benefit from solo travelling, she really needs to open her horizon and have a better understanding of differences on a human level...
She lives in a fantasy. It is worrying how an adult women can be so disconnected and lack so much self-awareness
I think to some people who have extreamly busy lives such as single parents, this is justifiable. Not everyone genuinely has 2+ hours to spare watching a film. However, with Ruby, we know what her schedule looks like (unnecessarily busy with tasks that involve lots of copying out notes etc.) so she definitely would have time to sit down and and watch.
I was reading about this the other day and found it really interesting. When I was writing my PhD, a really great week for me would be getting 10-15k words down. And that’s like 2k a day. Which would still need editing, formatting, referencing etc afterwards, but I would consider that to be speed writing. So I can only imagine how poor the quality must be if anyone wrote 10k in a day...and I’m kind of questioning the point of that, given how much work it would need afterwards, unless it’s literally just for enjoyment. I dunno. Even with the NanoWrimo thing I don’t really understand how writing all that so quickly is going to be useable or good, I would think even more so for a novel where style and literary devices etc matter a lot more?
I did NaNoWriMo once as a student. I felt the pressure to churn words out and still to this day I have a crap draft of a novel that needs writing again from scratch as it was so rushed, with no research or grammar
I wonder if Ruby also likes the creative writing in terms of running away with imagination, rather than the actual crafting, editing and perfecting stage of writing. I think she's a dreamer, not a writer, if that makes sense? Spellcheck exists, so if her first novel has typos and errors then that shows for her it's possibly more about dreaming up a world rather than crafting a literary piece of art.
I agree. ASD is usually harder to diagnose in females as females are able to adapt/repress their traits more effectively. Anxiety and OCD are also co-morbidities (if that's the right word) with autism.
I can imagine Ruby having a meltdown if her schedule was completely thrown off, and I can also imagine her being very inflexible and bossy with her family off-camera (re: the incident where Martha was doing a livestream).
There was a video a while back where she was organising the fridge at home that struck me as odd. Firstly, she was creating labelled places in the fridge for food which seems very rigid - I’d hazard a guess that most people don’t buy the same stuff often enough to justify that. Secondly, there was no sound in the video but her body language, when people were getting in her way whilst she was organising, was quite stressed-looking. It just seemed quite controlling and inflexible. My relative can be like that and also has issues with food and eating, they have a very small list of ‘safe’ foods and struggle a lot with flavours and textures.
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