/lit/ - Literature

>>22285656
R.C. Waldun is my creative writing teacher. At first we were all impressed with him. He was young and apparently talented (published while still in high school). He wowed us with his successful YouTube channel and told us about him becoming published in high school. We all felt lucky to get such a talented writer as our creative writing teacher.

Then he started teaching. Let's just say he didn't really know what he was doing. He kept repeating platitudes. He didn't know how to give feedback on any of our submissions. He would mark things as grammatically incorrect or suggest placing commas here and there, but his corrections were always grammatically incorrect. One of use pointed this out to him and said these types of corrections actually weren't helpful. He then pulled the minority card and said you can't correct a nonnative speaker on their grammar. He said if we continued this line of thought he would have no choice but to report us to the universities diversity affairs office.

After his lackluster teaching ability, we delved further into his supposed literary career. Turns out he is not actually published (self-publishing is not real publishing), the book he self-published is dogshit, and the rest of his writing is mediocre autofiction full of grammatical mistakes. So I went and complained to a department head about them letting someone with such a track record teach creative writing. I mean R.C. literally has no qualifications. I asked the department head if they ever checked out his qualifications or why he was allowed to teach a creative writing class. The department head said they were short on faculty and needed someone, anyone, to cover the class. Turns out they didn't even check his qualifications, and just hired him because he applied and because he said he wrote a book. After my meeting with the department head they said they would make sure he never steps foot in another creative writing classroom again until he becomes a legitimately published writer.

I couldn't fucking believe it. Now we just make fun of this dweeb behind his back. Pretty much every day in class he brags about how he and his friends are reviving the Beat movement. Or he talks about his upcoming novel L'Academie and how much his editor loves his prose. We asked him what publishing house his editor works at and he clammed up. He admitted that he hired the editor. Someone in the class who has real talent explained to him that you don't hire an editor. Your publishing house has one and your work with the editor at your publishing house for free. Waldun got really angry and told them to shut up and said some bullshit like "Who's the creative writing teacher here? Who has a book published?" The dude's a joke. I can't believe the University of Melbourne hired this dweeb. Probably a diversity hire anyways.

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>>19263673
absolutely based.

>>19128321
jesus christ anon I'm just here for keks

>>18542869
I've already been published. I would rather not whore out my dignity to kowtow to the likes of literal third-world femoids or beta/autistic boys who want to be writers. Waldun appeals to posters on r/books or r/writing, but only the specific subcategory who don't actually read/write but who want to read/write for the image and perception of being well-read or artsy. Waldun is the perfect example of image over substance.

What happens to Waldun once he gains a more significant following? Surely someone will have read The L'Earned Disguise and/or literally any of his proses. He is utterly incompetent. When will someone much larger in booktube finally make a video about his writing and embarrass this lolcow?

>>18434299
epic dubs, now fucking cum on his face