/lit/ - Literature

I remain somewhat gobsmacked that this dude is going on about this branding exercise of being a writer despite not actually writing anything. I mean, he's so well-developed. His photos are all good quality. His outfits are chosen very carefully. He clearly hires someone who knows about photography. Yet he has nothing of note to his name as far as writing or poetry. Even his attempt at making himself a brand seems to be falling flat, because I've literally never heard of him before coming to /lit/. He doesn't exactly trend on Twitter, you know? Does anyone actually know who Waldun is, anyone who matters?

First, write out the storyboard, then write a full libretto, then get the musicians in.

>>18728879
This

op, are you familiar with Gilbert and Sullivan's opera, the Mikado?
https://youtu.be/mXWkIZUPmDY

The yellow face thing could work, especially as Waldun writes all of his characters as white. Even when he avatars himself into novels, he turns into a white guy

>>18728876
> I remain somewhat gobsmacked that this dude is going on about this branding exercise of being a writer despite not actually writing anything
He's written a novel, The Learned Disguise

>>18728928
Is it any good?

>>18728923
>op, are you familiar with Gilbert and Sullivan's opera, the Mikado?
Yeah, that's kind of why I referenced it. Pretty good movie you linked btw.
>Even when he avatars himself into novels, he turns into a white guy
Huh, I never noticed that...what's that about?
>>18728933
>Is it any good?
Oh no no no...

>>18728933
It depends on your definition of good. As a work of literature, no. But as an text that explains his lolcowness, it's a classic.

>>18728876
Just you wait until l'academie comes out. It will crush into our culture like a meteor and change literature like Ulysses did

>>18728940
it's pretty clear that the main character Arthur is Waldun himself. Arthur likes all the same books and authors as Waldun. For example, there's a scene where Arthur has a recital at his piano teacher's house and he plays Mozart's K 545 or something. There's also a clip on Waldun's Instagram of him playing Mozart's K 545.

In my pic, Arthur is on his first and only date with his waifu. He took her to an Asian tea house and the waitress speaks Mandarin and no English. The only words that he recognizes are "xie xie" and Arthur/Waldun attributes that knowledge to the time that he studied Chinese poetry with his white English lit teacher, Mr. Morton. And not because he's fucking Chinese himself.

>>18729009
See, R.C. has decent exposition, but he can't make up a decent story to save his life. It's like putting the cart before the horse.

>>18729009
What the fuck, the PUNCTUATION of this excerpt is dogshit. Did no one tell him that you don't need a period after the close of quotation marks? What the fuck is that semicolon doing there after "remarked"? There should be a period there instead. This dude doesn't even know the basics of English grammar.

>>18729019
it's an amazing book. Every passage consists of Arthur doing the things that Waldun does, and the secondary characters exaggeratedly praise him. This pic is from the passage where Mr. Morton tells Arthur that he's dying. He has kept all of Arthur's typewritten writings from high school but bequeaths them back to Arthur. He is so sad that he won't be able to read Arthur's writings when he's dead, that he weeps all over the papers.

btw when Mr. Morton finally does die, his niece Gretel sends Arthur a letter informing him of his death, but that message only takes up 5% of her letter. The rest of it is her telling how great Arthur's taste in literature is, won't he please teach her how to write, she's going to paint a picture of their first meeting because she was so inspired by him, she loves his essays, please write more essays

>>18729051
excerpt of Gretel's letter to Arthur

>>18729065
More dogshit punctuation. What's the comma doing there after "That"? What the fuck are all these useless, stupid commas doing there?

>>18729083
Waldun in real life worked as a creative writing teacher. I suppose there's a reason Australia has produced zero great literature

>>18729009
>>18729051
>>18729065
>>18729097
Holy moley I probably was just as cringe when I was 19 bit luckily at worst there may be a few old Facebook status testifying to that. If i actuaoly published this kind of stuff and wanted to pursue a career as a writer this shit would haunt me

>>18729065
I had never realised just how self masturbatory this book was. It's just him wanking himself off over the fact that he reads difficult books, half of which I'm pretty sure he hasn't even read.

>>18729009
>>18729051
>>18729065
>>18729097
This is absolutely great material. Holy shit I'm glad I made this thread, I didn't know what I was doing still don't desu

>>18729097
TREE OF MAN.
{PATRICK WHITE}

>>18729065
>How do you do, fellow worms?

>>18729097
Who the fuck is paying for a course where this utter pseud clown is the teacher?

>>18729541
I just got what Waldun meant by worms.

He means BOOKWORMS

I'm thinking about starting the opera off by setting the scene. This is straya, land of abos, shitposters, and chinks. Have to come up with a song that captures that a la we are gentleman of japan. Only then can a start the main story where out of the ruff emerges a diamond.

>>18728862

>>18730005
The first song can be a trio with Waldun and his mom and dad. His mom always supported his endeavors to be writer while his father wanted him to go into stem.

Check 11:40 of this interview
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nHeFhI8p5gCc1pY6RXkSkZ46q32OeR_k/

That's also reference to this in Learned Disguise where Arthur talks about a meek son afraid of his father. Don't remember the page number but you can do ctrl f for "meek". This would be an interesting opera in the style of Chicago, with the main character interpreting real events in a stylized daydream format

Are you going to have a charcter straight up named Waldun or will it be more subtle than that?

So this is the power of Waldun. First and foremost, I wish to apologize about my constant "SHUT THE FUCK UP(s)!" in the preeminent countdown threads of his up-and-coming memoirs; truly remarkable.

>>18728933
proses

>>18729837
lmao

>>18729097
Jesus the CRINGE

>>18729097
Can writing teachers get fired if a student complains that their teacher doesn't use commas or periods right, or can't into English language in general? I feel like that would provoke a response of "that's racist" because Waldun is an Asian and "you're just jealous because he's a writing teacher and you're not"

>What Waldun is really creating are self development videos that use the aesthetic of classic literature not only to lend credence to his statements, but to create an atmosphere of art, intellectualism, and refinement that passes through him to his viewers. You don’t watch Waldun’s videos to be smart, you watch them to feel smart, or to feel justified in your belief that you somehow possess the necessary gifts of sensitivity, introspection, and intellect required for you to live a “literary life”, whatever that means.
waldunbros? how can we ever recover from this?

>>18728862
Let us know how the Libretto is coming along fren. I could see some interesting love triangle between Waldun, Jay and a female character.

>>18732766
love square because Jay has a Chinese gf

>>18730009
The Antagonist btw
> https://youtu.be/hBCQJ_4Pu4U

>>18733401
Lmao that dude is a faggot but he's based.
Look at this comment on the video
> I knew R.C. Waldun during high-school, and it's very easy to jump to criticism and insults for the book, but there's a lot of missing context behind it. He was writing the book during his last 2-years at high school, and from what I know, it was a fun project for him to try and write and then publish a book while studying his final year at school. From what I figured, he never planned for it to be this publically available, let alone reviewed on the internet, it was a fun adventure for him (what from what I know). I just thought it's worth knowing that R.C. Waldun has come very far since then, and I see a lot of people discrediting his channel and even him as a person, just because of something he wrote during busy high school life. It makes sense he's selling it now because he knows he's a known creator in the space, but knowing him in person, he's well aware of his flaws. By no means is he arrogant or pretentious in-person, and I don't expect him to be any different now.
> I do think everyone is giving a lot of hate for no real reason? The book was written way before he became popular on YouTube so he's not trying act like someone he's not, and that's the point of his channel, a journey of learning and knowledge with his viewers.
> t. > Appo could this be R.C. himself? lmao

>>18733536
Is it too much to believe that Waldun has irl close friends who aren't using him for clout? In an interview he did say that he outlined the plot of learned disguise with one of his high school friends, maybe it's that guy

>>18733536
>could this be R.C. himself?
Not enough grammatical errors

>>18728862
Musician here, can both write sheets and record/program/mix music (I study music).

This is fucking retarded.

>>18733744
Which is why I'm doing it.

>>18733401
I should add that the opera will feature """4chan goons""" echoing Waldun's fears and self-doubts. They are faceless men who are never seen but they are heard laughing and mocking Waldun throughout the operetta (they have their own song, a leitmotif) and provoking him. They appear in the middle of the play and provide a stark contrast to Waldun's initial audience who adore him endlessly; indeed, they are endlessly cruel and call him a faggot pseud they also want to fuck him. To make matters worse, KDBooks publishes a crushing review and he must save face by gracefully taking the criticism—inside he is seething. He briefly contemplates if his father was right, but in the end he musters up the strength to publish what is to be his chef-d'œuvre, l'academie (it flops).
It is something of a tragicomedy really.

>>18734205
>faceless men who are never seen
I've been reading to much Waldun, kek. Really it should be a chorus of anons.

>>18734205
What happens after it flops?

>>18734585
Don't know, I'm still working it out. I'm putting what I have out there to get feed back.

>>18734205
> he must save face by gracefully taking the criticism—inside he is seething
I'm looking forward to the gollum aria

>>18728862
Will Jisoe play a role?

>>18729556
Why do people post this cover? I remember a thread a while back by the author, or at least someone purporting to be him; I can't imagine it has anything to do with waldun though.

>>18734899
QRD?

>>18735095
Jieso are the graffiti artists of Melbourne and they primarily paint on trains. After the failure of Learned Disguise, Waldun made a new project: he was going to write literature about the uniqueness of Melbourne. Of course, he said that the one thing that makes Melbourne stand out from the rest of the world is its clothing. A few anons on the other thread protested that the true art culture of Melbourne is jieso graffiti, not high end handkerchiefs and other male fashion

>>18723149
>>18723370

Interesting but I'm afraid I don't know much about Melbourne. I will have to check him out though, I love graffiti as someone who's lived in N.Y. for a while. I vaguely remember an anon saying that Waldun had, after being accused of being sheltered and priviledged, decided to tour Australian ghettos and slums to prove he """got it"""—is this true?

>>18735119
Meant to (You) you here >>18735232.

>>18735095
Bottom-feeder who spraypainted trains then became a drug addict.

>>18735119
>jieso
wait is this different from 'jisoe'?

>>18735232
This video was published about a month after the bad reviews for Learned Disguise came. He went into a bit of an existential crisis and wanted to change. Waldun quit his job, which I doubt he needed anyway, and went to the city to """"watch people"'""". Like he's never seen these kinds of people before
5:20 he goes to the dingy corners of the city
At 6:30 he goes to a sketchy area
https://youtu.be/LiQltdrm698

In this video, he is still freshly seething and he disavows his previous persona of being a smart "ideas" guy and wanting to change
https://youtu.be/Gh4xkxWgocI

This angst is also in this video at 4:30
https://youtu.be/pBXAR82jRt8

At 6:50 in this video he talks about his expensive clothing, this is a recent video and he's never gone to the sketchy dingy places ever again, so looks like the poor neighborhood wasn't for him
https://youtu.be/TyTh_F0rc-A

>>18735088
I think it's actually the author and/his friends trying to set himself up as the "real deal" in contrast to Walduns poser faggotry.
Or maybe he just wants to fuck Walduns boy pussy.
I don't know for sure

>>18735316
hahaha the sketchy area is china town, a tourist zone.

>>18735316
>Asian
>Innumerate
He's really smashing these stereotypes isn't he?