Yup, they closed like two days after she was frantically writing her personal statement
For someone with several videos telling us how she stopped procrastinating once and for all, she sure leaves a lot of things till the very last minute.
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For someone with several videos telling us how she stopped procrastinating once and for all, she sure leaves a lot of things till the very last minute.Yeah, her approach to the whole thing has been nothing but red flags.
- Signed by an agent based solely on her influencer following.
- Chose to write in a very commercial genre she's previously shown an outspoken disinterest in.
- Appears to have just cannibalised a bunch of YA books for ideas.
- Kept moaning that the editing process is dull and mindless.
- Kept namedropping Stephen King whenever she talked about her writing ambitions.
- Fully expected to get a book published during her "gap year".
She's clearly gone in with no genuine interest or passion for writing and just wanted to shortcut her way to getting something sold. She was expecting a very fast and easy book deal and a level of financial success for it that only a few of the countless working authors ever see.
Her agent did her zero favours by signing her without a complete first draft - it only reinforced for Ruby the idea that everything will come easy and she should expect quick success. She should've been asked to revise and resubmit until such a time that she had something worth going on submission with, like any other writer would. Instead she and her agent have wasted their time for a year. Follower counts don't translate to book sales and publishers know it. She needs talent to succeed and she has none.
She'd have been much better off just self-publishing. There'd be no turnaround to get her work out in the world, she doesn't care about editing or improving so it'd remove that barrier. She already has an established platform to market from and she'd get to keep more of what little money she makes. Tattle would get to roast it and she'd plenty of blind praise from her fans. But instead she wants the gold trophy of a traditional book deal from one of the major publishers and expects a £1million book deal with no talent or effort. She's living in a world of pure fantasy - it's never going to happen.
I just assumed she's probably just not coping well with her school job.
She looks like a school girl not a teacher
Yeah I don't think she is coping well with her school job because in her latest YouTube video it was noticeable to me that the day after she had been at the school working she looked really tired and didn't seem to be her normal happy self.
I wonder if part of the reason she’s reluctant to talk about it is that it’s becoming too much already and she figures if she doesn’t talk about it, no one will know when (if?) she gives up and quits.
It's been a while since I studied any sort of meditation, but I do seem to remember a technique where you focused on the space between your eyebrows. This is supposed to be the location of your "third eye," so bringing your attention that area is not only centering but is also supposed to help you connect with your intuition.
Yeah I think the job has become too much already because it isn’t what she expected it to be IMO.
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lol she’s on TikTok banging on about Shakespeare and quoting plays she hasn’t even read (sorry Roobs but if it ain’t on Goodreads, we all know you haven’t even hit the Sparknotes) 
What a bleeping fraud.
What a bleeping fraud.The thumbnail says it all:lol she’s on TikTok banging on about Shakespeare and quoting plays she hasn’t even read (sorry Roobs but if it ain’t on Goodreads, we all know you haven’t even hit the Sparknotes)
I think the reality of becoming an adult is hitting her hard. I also think she’s very down in the dumps about her failing author career. Looking back on her gap year, what did she actually do apart from take a few holidays abroad?
I was wondering if she’d read my comment here! I know in the past she says she doesn’t read Tattle, but seems very coincidental! She seems to be going through a pretentious Shakespeare phaselol she’s on TikTok banging on about Shakespeare and quoting plays she hasn’t even read (sorry Roobs but if it ain’t on Goodreads, we all know you haven’t even hit the Sparknotes)
No way! In her second newest tiktok (where she talks about watching Shakespear) she's actually brushing her hair! Maybe she will include this into her newest morning routine?
Oh my god she's such an idiot, she's going on about how you miss the beauty in the language when watching Shakespeare's plays. Firstly, they're PLAYS, so they're intended to be performed. Secondly, they're saying the same words?? The performance of the language is still the language?? She's such a fake, it doesn't make you more of a literature lover because you literally prefer reading the words.
”And whilst Oiy’m broshing my hahr, Oiy loike tyo lie about hyow many bocks Oiy’ve read! Naxt, I tyouch moiy frackles with an invisible bryown pansill, johst to remoynd them of thahr natchroll colour!”
because reading while jumping on a trampoline or brushing your teeth is far less obstructive to your enjoyment of the language than *checks notes* listening to it. I guess.
When I first started working seven months ago, it took me around a month to get used to the routine of going out/being a person/interacting with people. And I lived a life quite similar to Ruby's, minus the pretentiousness (it's just chronic depression). She will either adjust eventually or fail spectacularly.
I do wondering if she's struggling as she's an 'introvert,' and if was having a panic attack after seeing friends for a few days then what is she going to be like in workplace and having to see people several times a week or hours at a time? I think she's keeping the details vague so she can quit at any time and no one would know if she couldn't stick at it.
Yes, Ruby should've gone the self-publishing route, especially since it's not as laughable as it used to be. In fact, it's become a pathway to getting traditionally published. Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six is one of the most successful recent examples of a self-published novel that got picked up and re-published by a traditional publisher. It didn't take Blake years of torturous rewrites and discouraging rejections to hit the NY Times bestseller list -- she was on it before she even had a publisher.
This is why it doesn't surprise me that Ruby thinks she should have an easy time getting published. Becoming a commercially successful author isn't always the arduous artistic journey that it used to be. Anna Todd's After series was a Harry Styles fanfic that the author started writing on her phone to pass the time in a Walmart checkout line. She published it on freakin' Wattpad, and it not only got found and published, but adapted into a Netflix series. Will anyone give a tit about it a hundred years from now? No, but who cares? It still made the author exquisitely rich. Personally, I'd rather be a multi-millionaire in the here and now than a literary legend long after I'm dead.
There's a lot of mediocre and downright piss-poor writing that's making fast money these days, especially in the YA category, fueled by Goodreads and BookTok and BookTube and probably some Gen Z social media tit that I don't even know about. It's really no wonder that Ruby thinks she can get in on the act, but she's going about it all wrong. A quicker path to becoming the latest fiction sensation these days is to get your writing out there yourself. If it catches on with BookTok, the publishers will find you. But of course, Ruby would actually have to write something first.
This is why it doesn't surprise me that Ruby thinks she should have an easy time getting published. Becoming a commercially successful author isn't always the arduous artistic journey that it used to be. Anna Todd's After series was a Harry Styles fanfic that the author started writing on her phone to pass the time in a Walmart checkout line. She published it on freakin' Wattpad, and it not only got found and published, but adapted into a Netflix series. Will anyone give a tit about it a hundred years from now? No, but who cares? It still made the author exquisitely rich. Personally, I'd rather be a multi-millionaire in the here and now than a literary legend long after I'm dead.
There's a lot of mediocre and downright piss-poor writing that's making fast money these days, especially in the YA category, fueled by Goodreads and BookTok and BookTube and probably some Gen Z social media tit that I don't even know about. It's really no wonder that Ruby thinks she can get in on the act, but she's going about it all wrong. A quicker path to becoming the latest fiction sensation these days is to get your writing out there yourself. If it catches on with BookTok, the publishers will find you. But of course, Ruby would actually have to write something first.
I truly think in Ruby’s mind her work should go down with the greats which is why she’s so hellbent on going a more traditional route… I feel as if she doesn’t want to be categorised into the ‘YouTube authors’ box.
Thing is she could has pushed herself to go to writing classes or something similar, to hone her craft and get her draft more ready. She's not a writer, she's just a woman too scared to leave her bedroom so she writes fan fics to keep herself occupied. She hasn't got what it takes to be a good author.
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