/lit/ - Literature

writers are so fucking gay now.

>>18537773
>first I wake up
>I record a video with dozens of takes
>I spend 3 hours editing it so that every sentence is correct because I can't do anything in a single shot because I'm a huge faggot

>>18537773
Time, to savour more, of the great Rice kek's illustrious proses, sir.

>>18537773
that reminds me, I have to add "waldun" to my filter. thanks for the reminder fren.

>>18537809
Be sure to include rice cock waldo

>>18537773
Don’t be racist, judge him on his prose!

>>18537821
also remember to filter "giant of contemporary literature"
Stay in the dark ages, anon

>>18537773
Why does he say "the person" over and over again, why not just use their name? Is Valdun an autismo?

>>18537844
“The Person” or “ la personne” is a representative of everyone in this world…
It’s a universal story you cave dweller. Why don’t you exit the cave like from Plato’s The Cave

>>18537889
Based Waldun's genius is too complex for these plebs to understand.

It's amazing how bad he is still. We need to bully him more

>>18537844
"The person" is obviously his editor, he just leaves it open-ended to possibly trick you into thinking he's talking to a hot babe

it's a shame there's no Maoist China to send him back to, a quarter century shovelling manure would do him a world of good

>>18537773
Is this serious? I'm not a writer and I've been reading mostly classics, but is writing really that difficult?

>>18537773
>the person
Oh god. Also why is this guy talking about his "career," there's no way he actually makes money with this stuff

>>18538125
Yeah that's what I thought as well, that he's trying to imply he has a girlfriend. Kind of pathetic really.

>>18538137
this made me lol pretty hard for some reason

>>18537800
Kek

>>18537844
He's in the closet and doesn't want to write "my boyfriend"

>>18538139
No. He just has no creativity, writing an actual novel is hard but writing shit like this is so easy to write good prose for. Waldun is a Rich fail son who thinks he's some enlightened intellectual when he's really just a fraud who has no insights. He's the type of guy who reads a well acclaimed book and says "it broke me" or "it was brilliant" and has no unique insight. People like Waldun are the zoomer hipster and they unironicly should be gassed.

When will we have Waldun r34? Can some talented anon do it....

>>18537773
I honestly don’t think the prose is that bad , but the fact that all his writing stinks heavily of faux-ashamed-but-actually-secretly-thrilled-to-be-a liberal arts student is nauseating. It’s always these quiet book types that end up the most narcissistic because they mistake their expression of narcissism as humility or social anxiety rather than be honest with us and themselves and say and see what it really is.

If he grows up a little bit and gets some self-awareness and a sense of humor, I bet this kid could actually write a decent satire on the exact kind of person he is now.

>>18537773
waldun scholars BTFO

>>18537773
Too narcissistic. If this was a character in a novel I could maybe get behind it, but this is clearly a representation of himself. It's just the right amount of self-awareness to not be actual self criticism but still pass for it if you squint a bit.

it's pretty interesting how invested he is in the idea that he is a writer, and that he writes. it's all he thinks about. everything is kind of like this these days, people are bizarre

>>18538421
Yeah you could write a great novel about a character based off Waldun but he himself is far too dull to make anything interesting. It's like in antkind how Kaufman is satirizing all these pretentious film essayists and critics but those kinds of people are too fucking boring and narcissistic to make anything of note themselves.

1: Wake up at 11 am and look at my smartphone, a 2018 Samsung A7. Yeah, it's a bit dated, but for an old codger like me it gets the job done. I stopped getting security updates last year. I load up /lit/ using KurobaEX and see no one has replied to my shitposts, so I switch to /gif/ and wank it to some sissy hypo webms. A short nap later, it’s already 2pm. This time around it seems I've provoked some responses on my bait thread.

2: Stumble into the kitchen and drink 6 raw eggs, two of which spilled out and onto the floor. I slurped them up anyway -- protein is protein. I notice the floor is filthy, but I don't give a fuck because it's a rental. I tell my mom on the phone that I want to see how long I can go without paying rent. She suggests some kind of carbonic cleaning solution, but I insist that Ajax will do the trick.

3: Think about leaving the house to get groceries without actually leaving the house. Because of covid there are now services for this. I asked my mom to do it anyway. Groceries arrive on my doorstep within 20 minutes.

4: Finally, I tell myself 'it's time to get reading'. Instead I shitpost for several hours.

5: 2 am. I crash into bed and immediately descend into a dreamless coma. By the time I wake up, there’s a missed call from mom and her voice-mail nags me while I prepare for an amazing morning cum. I get up and it’s already 1 pm. For a person like me, anything that happens outside of 4chan simply doesn’t exist.

6: Repeat.

>>18538949
Holy Kek

>>18538949
gem

>>18538949
Too close to home. Amazing prose though.

>>18537773
Imagine if Nabokov wrote this.

Waldun if you read this: I translated your work in French and I will continue to do so. If you want me to translate L'Académie in French please contact me.

>>18537773
Waldun /lit/ drinking game:
Take a shot every time someone smiles or nods as a response

>>18539041
it would still be bad but it would be even more pretentious

>>18539093
Dude contact him and send that image. Get him to trust you and then use that trust to leak L'Acadamie

>>18539216
based idea
like tricking chris chan into mailing you his sonichu amulet

Jesus, i didn't realize waldun is such a faggot

>>18538949
Top kek

>>18537773
i'm going through this faggot's "featured" prose and it's so smarmy and normie tier, god damn. what happened to writers who abused drugs, lived like fucking assholes and hated everyone including themselves? nobody wants to read about your introspective cum fantasy

>>18539093
holy shit lmao
i might do the german version. where can i get a source?

>>18539918
in the OP

>>18539575
Pseuds love him here. Of course he was going to be such a faggot.

We need Q back.

>https://rcwaldun.com/blog/we-are-not-a-couple
Holy shit it's bad
>I didn’t know what they tried to achieve with the aesthetic but one thing was clear. To me, that specific combination of things – the concrete building and the abominable lobby decor – made me want to throw up. To live in that apartment, I’d have to drive to a bulk department store and get a batch of vomit bags. But, for the record, being a student in the liberal arts, I simply didn’t have money to afford that many vomit bags. I turned to Jay: “Let’s go. This is not worth it.”
What the fuck is this? Is this his attempt to mimic pynchon? It's like he misunderstood everything that makes pynchon work. Just a complete lack of awareness outside of the self

>>18537844
I think the person was originally Cooper, but Cooper leaked a lot of Waldun's discord to /lit/ so now he's persona non grata

>>18540038
It’s the main reason why pseuds love him. Why do you think they shill him here?

>>18540056
wait do you actually think people here like waldun?

>>18540038
Narcissism simply. This is something I'd write in my private diary

>>18540038
I don't remember the part in Gravity's Rainbow when Blicero humblebragged constantly about majoring in English comparative lit in college and Katje being tsundere about grocery shopping and apartment shopping

>>18540078
NTA, but people here do suck him off.

>>18539918
1: Wake up at 7 am and think that it’s a good idea to lie back down after a brief phone call. A short nap later, getting up is 10 times harder and it’s already 11 am. This time around the person I called at 7 am has already finished a morning run.

2: Stumble into the kitchen and make bacon and eggs without fail. Lift the wine glass on the kitchen top and discover a ring-shaped wine stain. “They’ll put this on my rent,” I complain to the person on the phone. She suggests some kind of carbonic cleaning solution, but I insist that Ajax will do the trick.

3: Think about leaving the house to get groceries without actually leaving the house. This back and forth goes on for 2 hours.

4: Finally, I head to the grocery store and risk having another anxiety attack because there are other people at Woolworths.

5: Get home and tell the person I need a few hours to “work” and spend those hours drinking 3 bottles of sugar-free coke over David Sedaris’s Masterclass.

6: A few hours later, the person checks in. “How’s it going?” I say to her: “I’m still working.” But in reality, I’m napping over an open copy of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. The book isn’t the reason for the nap. I nap because it’s the best remedy for overthinking.

7: Wake up from the nap at around 7 pm and decide it’s time to wrap up work for the day. After walking around the apartment for a bit, I realize that my entire career is just an attempt to avoid work.

8: Make dinner at around 8 pm and have it over a glass of wine though I hate wine. I’m only drinking it because dad gave me the bottles and they were free.

9: Waste 4 hours after dinner on phone calls with friends, parents, and the person. Before I know it, it’s 1 am.

10: Sit down to write. Writing when you’re half-awake at 1.30 am is great because it short-circuits any overthinking. In most cases, I don’t even remember what I’ve written until I review it in the morning. That, in a nutshell, is the pinnacle of drafting.

11: 2 am. I crash into bed and immediately descend into a dreamless coma. By the time I wake up, there’s a missed call from the person and her voice-mail brags to me about her amazing morning run. I get up and it’s already 10.30 am. For a person like me, anything that happens before 11 am simply doesn’t exist.

12: Repeat.

>>18540038
What does this have to do with Pynchon?

>>18537844
ESL

>>18540042
What a bunch of faggots.

>>18540094
Dude.... no body here actually likes him. the people who "suck him off" are just mocking him.

>>18540148
I like him :(

>>18540122
It has the same type of obtuse comedic tone to it, only lacking any cleverness or insight past what the narrator is thinking

>>18540159
Why?

>>18540170
Not seeing it desu

>>18540159
can u explain what u like about him besides the almost admirable earnestness of wanting to be great but failing to do so and not even realizing how shit he is like a quixotic character

>>18537773
Have to say, I wish I could live the kind of life that piece is describing. Being a wagecuck fucking sucks.

>>18540038
Why is this story so infuriating? I’m a Waldunchad but even that was too much for me.

>>18540122
not sure, but Waldun was a fan of GR and did a full length video about it

>>18540232
You have no clue buddy. It gets worse.
>I spent the entire morning at the library, bored out of my mind. After that, I circled around the building and went to a bookshop at the back of the library, and browsed the shelves. The obnoxious music there was hand-picked by staff who gloated in their refined taste. I stood still in front of the Modern Classics section and a young man in a black coat came up to the shelf next to me. He pulled out Infinite Jest and I said:

>“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”

>He looked at me and said: “I know who you are.”

>“You what?” I looked at him.

>He smiled, “I’m Oscar and I’m writing a play. Aren’t you that writer from YouTube?”

>That’s the thing with artistic types. They think the world revolves around them. I nodded with a smile and he invited me to see his play. More often than not, university plays are oxymoronic without the oxy. Naturally, I didn’t want to go. I forced a smile and walked away. The conviction was to strangle the next person who’d bring up anything about staging a production. After that, I ended up at a café on the east side of the State Library.
https://rcwaldun.com/blog/mens-handkerchief

>>18540264
>More often than not, university plays are oxymoronic without the oxy

>>18540264
>That’s the thing with artistic types. They think the world revolves around them
Wow, no self-awareness at all

>>18540192
>>18540193
He reminds me of me. A misunderstood intellectual, mocked by the idiotic masses.

>>18540284
kek. this guy is such a faggot

>>18540292
I hung around him for a long time. He's not an intellectual, just posing as one.

>>18540292
No that would be me.

>>18540284
>>18540294
He stole that from an episode of House

Someone made a great post that reminded me of this thread.

>>18537520

All of this adds up to the most docile and homogenous generation to ever grace the planet. The real pacifier is not the early childhood conditioning factors, but the voluntary consumption of other people's fabricated lives in 30s doses. Vicarious addiction goes hand in hand with financial hopelessness. Your generation literally cannot afford to actualize and exercise agency so you cope by living through icons who have zero substance and merely appear as the image of your unobtainable desires. Tik tok stars are propaganda posters come to life.

The "dark age" is purely a result of the image triumphing over the idea. Once technology progressed that the image could be spread as quickly as an idea it was all downhill. The internet is just the latest piece of technology to facilitate the spread of image and even worse video.

There's no golden age at the end of this phenomenon, you vastly underestimate the broad appeal of the image. An image obsessed culture is not capable of an attention span long enough to produce any artistic work of meaningful quality. It just infinitely shits out propaganda depth copies of its ideas. You best start believing that the memes have come to life, son, because that's all that will ever exist in your lifetime.

>all these anons getting played by RC Waldun...
The "wannabe beatnik stunted funded by his parents who is delusional about his capacities" is all part of an act, Waldun acts itself that way to fool you into revealing your own disillusionment and pettiness. You would know that if you had read what Waldun has published before The Learned Disguise which was act one of his new persona.

>>18540192
>>18540193
I unironically find the idea of Learned Disguise very romantic, idealistic, and charming. Yes, it was a steaming pile of crap, but I believe that was due to Waldun's ESL Chinglish and tryhardness with mimicing the "greats." If he had written the story in Mandarin and wrote earnestly, from the heart, without affection, it could've been at lauded as one of the best novels for young men.

Here's the plot synposis of LD
> main character is Arthur, foreshadowing that he will become an author
> he is innately talented and has high verbal IQ, nowadays he would've been put into the gifted and talented educational programs, but the story was set in 1800s or some shit
> has been working on his first novel for years but he cannot finish it
> Arthur meets hot girl Veda who he wants to be his gf
> he thinks a finished novel will impress her
> Arthur 4 supportive friends
> 1. dearly beloved elderly lit professor mentor (who at the end of the novel dies and bequeaths him a lot of money so Arthur can write full time)
> 2. hot but stupid chick Grethel
> 3. hot, smart, but not as smart as Arthur male friend Felix
> 4. sniveling Indian servant Timur
> friends take him on a roadtrip around Europe, to Berlin, London, Paris, Milan, to coffee shops, museums, concert halls, etc. to give him inspiration for his novel
> and he's in love with Veda
> with all this stuff happening, Arthur finally feels artistically inspired and finishes his novel, which he names The Learned Disguise
> he presents the novel to Veda, but she breaks up with him, she's not interested in him or his book
> saddened, he goes back home, but in his home are his cheerful friends (and mentor is dead so now Arthur is rich)
> he realizes the true riches in life are friendship and a love for literature
> group hug with friends and Arthur looks forward to writing his second novel

How could you not like Waldun after all that?

>>18540345
Everything you list sounds like only pseuds would like.

>>18540345
the proses sir..... they flow!

>>18540345
Go read The Secret History you fucking pseud. The retard can't even speak Mandarin, everyone here calls him ESL but all he knows is English and a bit of French.

>>18540395
he makes the same errors that chinks learning English make. Mandarin doesn't have plurals, and he's always saying shit like
> five week ago
> the story is 300 words long
> it takes four month to do
Plus he's clearly Chinese, his real name is Robin Wu, so logically he's a Chinese ESL

>>18540417
Literally making excuses for him.

>>18540417
I guess I mean, a "it's a 300 words story"

This all reads like jason compson went to harvard instead of quenrin and became a pretentious liberal arts student

>>18540326
How do we overcome this? I know 4chan is usually doom and gloom.

>>18540425
How can you listen to him and think that English is his native language?

>>18540417
I haven't seen him ever interact with anyone online with Mandarin. You make some good points tbf

>>18540345
>main character is Arthur, foreshadowing that he will become an author
Please stop giving me second hand cringe

>>18540443
*only writes stories about himself*

>>18540443
Are there any Chinese people online who want to interact with him? All of his irl friends are white, with the exception of Jay's Chinese-British gf. I've looked through the comment section of his Instagram and Youtube, and females fans and follows consist of, from most common to least, Indian girls, white girls, and third world Hispanic not Chicana girls.

>>18540443
I don’t say this lightly but fuck is this one of the most pretentious things I’ve ever read.

>>18540443
>they’re there whether you like them or not
AAAAAA I HATE THE SMALL STORIES THAT GO ON AROUND US

>>18540523
It’s why pseuds here love him. For all intents and purpose, Waldun is how they view themselves.

does he have a new discord?

>>18540525
kek

>>18540525
WHAT DOES THIS LINE EVEN FUCKING MEAN?? IT’S LIKE HE JUST THREW IT IN BECAUSE IT’S A FUCKING SNAPPY PHRASE

>>18537773

>>18540614
What are you getting at here

>>18540628
Waldun is full of cuties all over him

>>18540264
>That’s the deal with artistic types. They think the world revolves around them.
Ricebros…

Walden me mate, very nice little book ya gat here eh?

>>18540159
hehe

>>18540672
Based

>>18540244
>there are pictures of books on his fucking curtains
jesus christ this fuckin dude

>>18540264
Holy shit he's so bad

Why did waldun treat a guy asking him to see his play like a personal attack?

>>18540525
fucking kek

>>18540443
>There are hidden stories all around us. Some grand, some subtle but all and all, most of them were unnoticed.
Holy fucking God Christ and Allah, pretentious is not strong enough a word. Saying "He lacks self awareness" would be being generous. This man is completely unredeemable and unlikable on every single level. He should unironicly kill himself.

>>18540873
>Why would a pseud feel attacked when someone ask to see his work
Just go to /wg/ and you will find your answer.

>>18540417
He's clearly Chinese-American, English is his first language he's just bad at it

>>18541036
No, Waldun felt attacked when the other guy offered to show Waldun the play that other guy wrote. /wg/ pseuds feel insecure when asked to show examples of their own work, instead claiming that everything they write is traditionally published or making up some other flimsy excuse, but RC in this case was upset at an invitation to see someone else's play

>>18541036
Reading comprehension ain't your strong suit, I see

>>18541055
Kek if true

>>18541055
He lives in Australia. Maybe he attended one of those expensive international schools, could explain his lack of Aussie accent

>>18541077
Australia is just southern hemisphere America

>>18540443
Why is he afraid to swear? He always censors himself. Lmao.

>>18541129
He lives with a white guy who swears constantly but who beats him and fucks his ass if he swears

>>18541135
Fk you

>>18541135
sounds like a typical yaoi couple

>>18540326
This slaps

Walden prose: I am eat nigro apple 拉屎 as reward for writing 100 word. Are China liberal art delicacy dog shit four months james jouce.

>>18540264
Oh wow look, massive nobody faggots attacking a writer again...

>>18537773

>>18537809
Just added it too. This dude is an absolute faggot and is total garbage at writing

>>18541299
/Lit/ fucking hates on writers so hard. Pathetic.

>>18540395
Are you not a fan of The Secret History?

>>18541357
I just hate pseuds on principles. I support and buy novels from self-publish authors.

>>18539093
based, I did ukrainian translation for practice

>>18537773
this isn't very well written but i think a story about some neurotic millennial having constant anxiety attacks and communicating only over text and phone could be pretty funny.

>>18541236
>>18541357
If you write shit you're going to get mocked. I'm sorry waldun but it's true.

>>18541357
pseuds love to hate other pseuds, this guy sucks major ass tho its literally a boring ass rich kid writing about which coffee place he should try next lmao

>>18539093
>>18539918
>>18541374
kek, will do it in brazilian portuguese, gimme a sec

>>18537773
Another microdick faggot estrogen-soaked lit boi made for bussy pounding. Unlike Rimbaud though he's utterly talentless and good for nothing other than being a strong man's quivering cock-sleeve, rectally and intellectually beaten and bruised for a superior mind and body's pleasure.

>>18541545
his writing is even worse than I thought.

>>18541400
What kind of writer am I:

https://jason-bryan.com/what-happened-to-vancouver/

>>18539093
>>18539918
>>18541374
>>18541606
Alright, gave it a try in Spanish.

Valdun's proses brining people from all across the world together.

>>18537773
Real signature? Holy shit, even the way he writes his name is pretentious.

>>18538306
The c-- tribute doesn't count?

ngl, I'm jelly of his group of writer friends

>>18542130
yes, i too wish i could waste my time hanging around a bunch of grade-A fags

>>18542130
It's like watching the whole sick crew in real time
Bunch of hipsters too far up their own ass to stop having fun

>>18541604
based af

>>18542130
they look like total faggots lmao

>>18540443
There are hidden conspiracies all around us. Some grand, some subtle but all and all, most of them are unnoticed.
Machination is between the lines and between the gaps of buildings. They're there whether you like it or not, and these schemes will play out either way, we just have to find a way to capture them.
Dare to notice, and be willing to observe. Open your laptop alongside some good coke and a PB&J and look into the streets. Experience will turn into paranoia and feelings will congeal into dread.
That.
is /POL.
DAMN.
BOOM
FK YOU

>>18542130
>This is what pseuds inspire to be like
Just kill them.

>>18542130
I'm normally hesitant to critique people for things that seem silly because this whole culture of ultra self-aware cringe-hunting has gone way too far to the point that it has crippled interpersonal relationships, but after seeing the other stuff in this thread, this guy is a major faggot. It's one thing if this is a teenager we're talking about, but a guy his age really shouldn't be LARPing as some caricature of an intellectual. Those old sorts who went to Harvard, Yale, or Oxbridge, knew Latin and Greek, and were actually intelligent died out by like the 70's. This shit is closer to /fa/ than /lit/.

>>18541725
not as kawaii as Valdun

>>18541725
Wow, you're really making the rounds. Trying to be the next Gardner? Fuck off.

It's not bad it's just really boring

>>18538137
It would probably make him a better writer.

>>18542346
Nice try fag, you going to create something, someday?

>>18542618
You have to study the classics, and that's hard anon. There are many books to read. I'm not just going to write and get into something without studying it's history. A lot of books you won't even understand the first time.

>dreamless coma

kek

He suffers from the same "essay disease" most novice writers suffer and Stephen King talks about it in On Writing. Basically, we've all been conditioned in school to write these shitty essays where we just talk about what we've done the last summer or some inane shit like that. We do that for 12 years and that's all we know, and then retards like Waldun come to assume that just jotting down what you did in a day is somehow interesting. That's not real writing. It doesn't come close to even an approximation of what it's like to even write flash fiction.
Where's the character? The conflict? The drama? The setting? The emotions? The scenes? The plot? The themes? All these things which grow out of an idea and coalesce into something bigger than than the sum of their parts because they have to be carefully chosen in a way that makes the story live and breathe.
But this kind of writing has none of that. It's just busy work of putting sentences together to appear as an author. So he tries to make it interesting in the only way left possible, the prose. But of course, he's 20 years old and not even close to mastering the language and ends up with his shitty "proses."

Here's more of his awful writing. This was posted before during the discord leak.

>>18542773
2/4

>>18542773
I like it.
Let's see something you wrote, faggot?

>>18542773
He writes like a pseud. Holy shit. No wonder so many here like him.

>>18542780
Here you go. /wg/ liked my excerpt.

>>18542726
You and your "rules" are so fucking wrong. That's why I've lived a fun life of excess and grand adventure and you've been in mom's fucking basement.
>Rules
I can put on a dress and call myself a woman and nobody will question me
>I write a book and people are like "MUHHH FUCKING CLASSICS?" and are shocked I can be an author without having read some fucking "classics"
Ok faggot. You're a fucking goof.

>>18542780
love

math

for its

ultimate

complexities are

beyond infinite, glorious.

if god exists he is hiding within math, no doubt.

proof is in the great constants, that which transcends math, which existed even before time.
also 3/4

>>18537773
One of his most boring pieces. Obviously just posted it to flirt with the girl he's calling.

>>18542786
I love it!

My ONLY criticism would be it is a bit wordy in parts... you could trim a little fat... very cozy writing!

>>18542763
I know for a fact that Waldun has read On Writing and he recently made a video criticizing essays in which he may or may not cite King but im too lazy to go watch it again

>>18542793
Hey I like it, is it part of a whole novel?

4/4

>>18542799
No you fucking don’t. The excerpt is shit.

>>18542809
the picture is waldun

the text is me. good poem. count the syllables (minus the 'also 3/4')

>>18542811
As a writer with a crazy brain, I would agree!

Amazing how much people tear down writers on /Lit/, shocking, really.

>>18537773
To finish reading this, "I’d have to drive to a bulk department store and get a batch of vomit bags."

>>18542822
/Lit/ fucking seethes when people like things?

START A FUCKING YOUTUBE CHANNEL FAGGOTS

WHY DON'T YOU?

>>18542827
>double indenting
>"/Lit/
>clear newfaggery
gtfo faggot

>>18542840
I want to be the next Faulkner, Proust, or even Tolstoy. Not some contemporary deadbeat.

>>18542840
why would i ever want to be a public figure?

>>18542840
I think I will.
What should my first video be about?

>>18542851
>>18542853
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND SHITE, YOU NEED YOUTUBE SIMPS ON YOUR DICK TO PUBLISH YOUR WRITINGS. IF RICEFAG CAN GAIN FOLLOWERS THEN YOU CAN ALSO DO THIS.

>>18542773
This isn't that bad but it's boring and full of errors. Why does he write when he doesn't yet fully know how to speak English, and when he has nothing to say?

>>18542869
Fucking based all-caps anon. I like you.

Do you like the name "MisFitLit"?

>>18542840
sup waldun

>>18537773
Day in Life
1: Wake up at 1 pm and think that it’s a good idea to lie back down, after a brief jerk. A short nap later, I wake up 10 times harder. It's already chaffed. This time around the person I thought about is all sweaty from finishing a morning run.

2: Stumble into the bathroom and take a shit. Without fail. Lift the soiled toilet paper off the bathroom floor and mop the ring-shaped shit stain. Shit. “I'll take it out on my mind,” I complain into the mirror. I'll mix and sniff some kind of cleaning solution. Fancy. But I settle for plain Ajax--that will do the trick.

3: Think about leaving the house to get groceries without actually leaving the house. This back and forth goes on for 2 hours. I jerk off 3 more times.

4: Finally, I head to the grocery store and risk having another anxiety attack because there are other people at Woolworths. Fuck I'm a pussy.

5: Get home and tell the mirror I'll use a few hours to “find” work but spend those hours drinking 4 bottles of sugar-free coke--it was on sale and the only type left--browsing internet porn. In finding the right video I lose all sense of time.

6: A few hours later, the mirror checks in. “How’s it going?” I say to it: “I’m still living.” But in reality, I’ve been fapping. Fapping over an open copy of The Myth of the Female Orgasm. The book isn’t the reason for the fap. I fap because it’s the best remedy for overthinking. It makes me sleepy.

7: Wake up from a nap at around 11 pm and decide it’s time to sniff again. After pacing around the apartment for a bit, I realize that my entire life is just an attempt to avoid pain. I jerk off.

8: Microwave "dinner" at around 2 am and have it over a glass of sugar-free coke though I hate aspartame. I’m only drinking it because it was on sale; but if I had the balls to steal, like my father, the better stuff would be free.

9: Waste an hour after "dinner" on 4chan with "friends." Before I know it, it’s after 3 am.

10: Lay down. Ruminating when you’re half-awake at 3.30 am is great because it short-circuits emotion. It's less intense. In most cases, I can’t even remember which event to relive...until I relive it again. Feeling sorry for myself. That, in a nutshell, is the pinnacle of my empathy.

11: 4 am. I crash into bed and immediately descend into a coma. Dreamless. By the time I wake up, there’s a missed opportunity to be a person. No missed calls. I jerk off thinking about an imaginary girlfriend with extra energy to burn after a morning run. I get up and it’s already 3.30 pm. For a "person" like me, anything that happens simply doesn’t exist.

12: Sniff.

>>18542865
BASED
MAKE A VIDEO THAT PYNCHON IS YOUR WIFE

>>18542877
NO, FITLITBRAH IS COOL
YOU NEED TO MAKE PROFIT FROM A TINY NICHE. APPEALING TO A NICHE INTERNET COMMUNITY IS HOW YOU GAIN FOLLOWERS. MAKE A CHANNEL AND ALL OF FITLIT SELF IMPROVEMENT PSEUDS WILL BE ON YOUR DICK.

>>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?

>>18542924
>FITLITBRAH
Bro... thank you.

>>18542930
>I've already been published.
This is cool.
Are a MFAfag?

>>18542930
What if you found out that Brother Shakespeare wrote a cringe play when he was 18 or Mozart was in a crap acapella group when he was in college? It wouldn't matter, as Will and Amadeus have by this point honed their craft. They might even have a good laugh over their early works

>>18542949
This isn't simple juvenilia. Waldun has been writing for at least four years now. NGMI

>>18542961
yeah but he wrote Learned Disguise when he was 18 or 19? Even now he's only 22 or 23

>>18542930
The amount of sheer hate and vitriol for this guy is fucking off-the-charts. What the hell is wrong with /Lit/?

>>18542969
He turned 20 this year. He's not going to suddenly manifest talent after four years of not improving.

>>18537773
Ricecock Waldun does it again!

>>18537831
Midwit detected

>>18542981
dude, 20 is very young and he has a language barrier handicap

>>18542981
Oh wait he's only 20?
Eh, there's still hope for /ourguy/

Can we protect our Waldun-kun from predators? I'm 75% sure that Jay is exploiting RC for his money, taking advantage of the generous allowance that RC gets from Mommy and Daddy, and RC's insecurity and desperation to be accepted as a white person and a bone fide writer.

Look at this Instagram post dated May 22. He says that around March 22, he was "funded to write full time" and yet there's nothing on his Instagram page or his Youtube channel that indicates he's won a fellowship or scholarship. So what does that phrase mean?

>>18542970
yeah we should just never call anything bad ever bc like, what is bad even ?? XD it's all subjective bro like why contend for creative standards lol just eat cardboard and pretend its bread i am very smart don't forget to subscribe to my yt channel im writing a novel

I really do hate your ilk.

Was there anything special happening in March? For one thing, his growing friendship with rich Chinese twink Waldun

>>18543135
Typical Anglos. Colonizing a fresh Mandarin girlfriend/mail-order bride and exploiting them for cash.

March 28: RC Waldun officially helps Jay set up his Youtube channel

>>18543139
In what ways is Waldun the fucking Megan Thee Stallion of writing?

April 25: Waldun and Jay stay in the same room for 6 hours until 3 am, working on L’Academie. Marathon sessions are something that Waldun likes, which is also something that Jay’s patron likes him to do.

January 2021 is the first time that Jay and Waldun met. Between January and March, there were only 2 posts about Waldun, and the second one is a behind the scenes extra about the first post.

But starting March 20, Waldun is a regular guest on Jay's Instagram, making an appearance in at least 25% of Jay's posts. Even the books he reads (Jack Kerouac's On the Road) are the books that Waldun likes

Jay after meeting Waldun, Jay suddenly really likes Jack Kerouac, which is one of Waldun's favorite authors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D4dZL6SVGQ&t=190s

Jay also "hits the streets" often with Waldun, which he rarely did with Jaiden and never with the fat girl, Saskia. In March and April, he also started using the #darkacademic hashtag, which he never did before he met Waldun.

>>18543179
>>18543169
>>18543163
>>18543155
>>18543150
>>18543143

big if true
the grifter gets GRIFTED

>>18542773
>I looked for Gab in a crowd of people wearing blazers
This is the first sentence. He obsesses over fashion in the Learned Disguise and his short stories. Is Waldun just a /fa/ anon in denial? Feels like he picked dark academia and is retroactively trying to become an Oxbridge/Ivy League caricature.

>>18537889
Bravo Wawldoon, bravo

>>18537773
this is so fucking awful jesus christ. any editor worth his salt would have told him to completely scrap this complete pile of dog shit. No wonder he can't write a fucking book.

>>18537780
Fuck you geek

>>18540326
nice insight

>>18540525
lol

>>18537773
Why does Waldun pose with his typewriter of all things?

>>18543135
also pre-robin jay frequented places like berghain, exposing him to a world robin could never imagine.

>>18543348
Pseuds love typewriter. They think it gives them an air of intellectualism.

>>18543422
proof on the berghain thing?

>>18540311
Sure you did.

>>18543446
there’s a vid that he explains his travelling history. he hit the german club scene as a ‘book dealer’ selling his work in the bathroom. desu pretty funny

>>18543496
Oh yeah, this. I actually mire him for this. It shows an entrepreneurial spirit, or at least some initiative

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDTSOh4nE6z/

>>18543496
jay is honestly the coolest of the bunch. jayidyien is a massive tool, worse than robin

>>18543518
having met them all i can say: robin means well but is misled, jay is a boss, jaidyn is um… yeah

>>18543548
what about the girl, Saskia?

>>18543503
Fucking rich pieces of shite make me want to puke

>>18543559
I'm pretty sure Jay is working class. Author copies for books run about $2 or $3 US dollars

>>18543552
never met her

>>18543573
Affording apartments and fucking around Berlin is expensive as fuck. Only upper class cunts can afford this type if shit.

Also he is a white knight for foids so fuck this faggot.

>>18543590
Don't act like /Lit/ gives a fuck if you're rich or poor, if you write, they'll hate on your ass.

>>18543593
>if you write, they'll hate on your ass.
No, /lit/ likes DFW and Tao under all of the multi layered irony because they know how to write. /lit/ hate privileged retards who are still retards even after being privileged. A working class retard is okay but a upper class retarded faggot larper isn't okay. And he deserves to get mocked like the faggots ITT.

Jesus, translating that piece of shit made me realize just how bad is writing is. But, how many faggots here can say their writing has been translated into multiple languages.

>>18543626
>"They know how to write"
As opposed to telling a good story, faggot?

>>18543724
>Jesus, translating that piece of shit made me realize just how bad is writing is
He writes like a pseud, its the only reason why he's gaining traction.

>>18540828
#StopTheAsianHate

>>18540435
Thats just mean

>>18542780
ok here's what i wrote

He was now inside the library. It was as cool and quiet and dim as when he had reconnoitered it the day before. The librarian didn't look up from her desktop game of solitaire as he walked toward the corner where the classic literature was shelved. Seeing that it too had maintained the state in which he initially observed it - desolate and inconspicuous - the trepidation which had been festering on the edges of his consciousness faded. Still under the influence of some anxiety, however, he absentmindedly groped at his genitals through his silver polyester athletic shorts. Scanning the shelves, he read and recognized the names of authors he had not and did not care to read. Balzac, Dickens, Faulkner, Mann, and so on. The problem with working through a book, he thought, was that he didn't have to. If the work contained any novel insight, the reading public would integrate those insights into their daily life; being a member of that same population, those insights would find their way to him eventually. His apish appearance belied the fact that the degrees of separation between him and this reading public was about three.

Now almost fully erect, he decided to sneak a quick ejaculation into the day's schedule. Kneeling down on the dark-blue carpet, he retrieved his member from his running shorts. Each stroke produced a sort of whispering sound; a sound no louder than that of actual whispering one might hear if this particular library was more popular. Not having the strongest pictorial imagination, he glanced around for something even tangentially erotic. Instead, all he saw was phalanxes of names of very famous and dead authors. He was unsure if they were bemused or amused or shocked or disgusted, but he felt as if they were all arrayed around him with unyielding eyes. Joyce and Jung and even Joubert, all gazing from the spines of their works in a sort of ghostly or immortal way.

The frictive heat on his member, the slow fatiguing of his arm, and the why-am-I-even-doing-this species of boredom all crept up on him, tapping on his shoulder in a dissuading way. He persisted, however, until his haunches tightened and whitish phlegm spattered the carpet. The bookshelves glared with unison disapproval. Zola, who was only inches away from the clump of spermatozoa, stared with the greatest disdain. With anxiety still lingering, he wiped the dampness from his urethra on the carpet, stood up, and peeked around the bookcase toward the door. Just then, the sound of barking broke into his consciousness. It grew louder until the glass door swung open, and a man with a chained pit bull invaded the library.

"My God! Sir, you can't bring your dog in here," the librarian cried.

The dog walker scanned the entirety of the room, save the librarian's eyes. When he met eyes with the man behind the shelf, he tossed his head up and smiled.

>>18543816
I wish someone would write some Jay-Waldun yaoi style slash romance

>>18543816
That's like me drunk on a Tuesday, got any thing else?

>>18543836
The most magical stage of renting an apartment was the inspection stage. It was a Friday morning and Melbourne was just on the verge of Autumn. I entered the city with the intention of securing a new apartment and I met up with my friend Jay in front of The State Library.

“Today’s a big day for you man,” Jay said. “When’s the first inspection?”

“In twenty minutes,” I said.

I booked two inspections. One was a tiny bachelor’s suite behind the library and another was located on a busy street. The one behind the library sounded like an attractive option and the pictures on the site looked halfway decent. When I booked the inspection, I had the firm conviction to land it then and there, however, I completely changed my mind the minute I saw the building. From across the street, Jay frowned at the apartment complex:

“What the hell is that?”

“That’s the first apartment,” I said. The building was a slab of concrete held together by hideous blue steel frames. Construction noise was also a constant near the apartment building so if I landed it, I basically had to cross sleep off of the list of human essentials. We walked up to the door of the lobby and there was a huge print of a tropical coconut tree plastered on the wall and the space was decorated with plastic orange dots. I didn’t know what they tried to achieve with the aesthetic but one thing was clear. To me, that specific combination of things – the concrete building and the abominable lobby decor – made me want to throw up. To live in that apartment, I’d have to drive to a bulk department store and get a batch of vomit bags. But, for the record, being a student in the liberal arts, I simply didn’t have money to afford that many vomit bags. I turned to Jay: “Let’s go. This is not worth it.”

“If you rent here, I think you’ll get stabbed in the hallway.” Jay laughed. I looked into the lobby with the orange plastic dots and thought: absolutely no way.

Jay didn’t come to the second apartment inspection because his girlfriend was mad at him. I circled around the block and ended up on the street where the building was. It was such a busy district that cars constantly honked at one another, but compared to the constant construction work, I had nothing to complain about. I went to the address of the apartment building and spotted a lobby that was much more bearable. It was pretending to be something it wasn’t with its marble floor and landing mirrors, but in short, it was something I could live with. I stood below in the streets and spotted a young woman in a brown overcoat. She looked around the block and looked up at the building. I walked up to her.

“Are you also here for the inspection?”

>>18543430
Well, Cormac McCarthy has the same model but he seemed to just want one because he's too old to go digital. I think typewriters are good back ups if civilizational collapse occurs bc electronics might be useless and I fucking hate pencil and paper.

>>18543840
I like it, easy to read. Is this from a complete novel?

>>18543862
It's going to be an anthology of short stories, coming out on July 1. It's called Passing Tales

https://rcwaldun.com/blog/we-are-not-a-couple
https://rcwaldun.com/

>>18541374
Ah yes, meme russian

>>18543840
sounds incredibly boring

>>18537773
Why can't he get his cases right, and why don't his texts flow, at least remotely?
I'm ESL and I get this right most of the time.

>>18537780
Only waldun. Some of us live in the sewers and come out with the gojira theme song ready to fuck, kill, eat and deliver manuscripts.

>7: Wake up from the nap at around 7 pm and decide it’s time to wrap up work for the day. After walking around the apartment for a bit, I realize that my entire career is just an attempt to avoid work.

This would be relatable if I didn't knew this guy is one of those asians whose father pays between 1500 and 2000 dollars of rent every month for a skyscraper in downtown Melbourne and who will repeatedly press the close button on you as you run towards the elevator trying to deliver (to him or to another asian living in the same skyscraper) the food they just bought online.

>>18544350
>who will repeatedly press the close button on you as you run towards the elevator trying to deliver (to him or to another asian living in the same skyscraper) the food they just bought online.
Insanely based. I might have to reconsider my thoughts on Waldunism.

>>18541236
im really digging this pic. looks oddly cozy

>>18537773
it is something a 15-year old would write and even then just keep it hidden in a diary, because by that age they're self-aware enough

this guy isn't
is he actually, unironically retarded? like, arrested development because his mom did drugs or some shit?

>>18543918
holy gay

>>18544350
If that's him he deserves every little bit of shit people give him and deserves to be unaware as such.

>>18543856
What happens when civilization collapses and you run out of paper and ink ribbons?

>>18543430
I just got one for the hell of it and admittedly it's a great mix of speed and methodicalness.

>>18543179
How/why would you write socially?

>>18541236
cope faggot waldun’s writing is laughable. it sucks

>>18537773
I don't mean to be racist, but his behaviour is so typically asian.

>>18541357
>muh cell phone conversation
>muh power nap
>muh sandwich
it’s funny how bad this shit is. Obviously his friends and family never had the guts to tell him

>>18545150
I just imagine them both sitting in a room typing. I guess it helps stay focused, if you feel like the other writer will judge you for goofing off

I really really want to put a dress on him and fuck his boypussy

>>18542837
Yeah, they do bro. Some /lit/ posters are cool others are just raging all the time. I'd say /lit/ is nice to people who are humble. Not like that Shitkickers guys who should just be ignored.

>>18542930
Cum genius, is that you?

>>18543729
Look at Steven King? He can't write for shit but he tells good stories.

>>18545395
He can't, good directors can make his shit not shit. That's it.

>>18545279
I guess. I have artist friends who get together for "arting" sessions and I try to have something graphic-related I can work on. Otherwise, to write, I have to put on my headphones and zone out and then there's no point in the social aspect, especially since I'm much more comfortable nude and idly play with my dick in between writing stretches.

>>18545376
Him the Italian war guy the Canadian article man.

>>18540284
Literally the face I made when I read that

>>18544360
>closing elevators on people is based
I'd be curious to know if more people here identify with the reach but autistic elevator button presser or with the poor but well-meaning food deliverer

all I got from that is he spends most of his day sleeping and is seemingly chronically tired because he probably has a shit diet or doesn't exercise also
>I’m only drinking it because dad gave me the bottles and they were free.
is he fucking illiterate why would you say someone gave you something then specify for free - no one assumes that someones giving you something for a fee otherwise you'd use the word buy or purchase or something

>>18545515
>2am to 7am sleep, 5 hours
>7:30am to 11am sleep, 1 hour 30 minutes
> spends 2 hours overthinking (lol mental illness quirky)
>goes to shop can't take more than an hours since he shops locally
>gets back and takes a nap
>likely takes the nap at 3pm-7pm, 4 hours

>per 24hours waldun spends 10 hours 30 minutes asleep

>>18542840
But I did that

>>18538949
this shitpost is better written than the original. i hope waldun sees this

>>18545515
I assume he wants the reader to know both informations that his dad gave it to him, but he is only drinking it because he is lee poor art student and cant refuse free stuff (bullshit bc we all know Waldun doesn't hurt for money). I can't imagine writing this, reading it, and wanting it published with my name on it

is he gay or straight?

>>18545544
put a mask on instead of this cringe shit, unless you need to hide your body because you're overweight in which case you shouldn't be voicing your opinions

>>18545915
He is asian

>>18543856
It looks lik an electric typewriter.

>>18540264
>“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”
Actually funny, but then he ruins it with this capeshit tier quip:
>university plays are oxymoronic without the oxy.
His ESL really came out there, oxymoron is not an obscure high brow term.

>>18545544
Checked
>Virtual youtuber
Cringe

>>18542990
>seething

>>18543179
it's weird how both waldun and jay like hunter s thompson considering he'd probably fucking hate them

>>18545423
What about the Italian War? Lol Canadian Article man? Lmao

>>18545533
Teenagers need more sleep.

>>18546636
The future is now, old man

>>18546679
Waldun is fully mainstream, is he not? Like does he hold a single controversial view? (Who is even willing to say anything controversial in 2021)

>>18541862
are you a native spanish speaker? i ask since i'm learning it and want to know if your prose is idiomatic enough to be a good source for my learning.

>>18546793
Native spanish speaker here, his spanish seems good enough, some weird syntax but that is probably rice cock writing.

>>18545515
>>I’m only drinking it because dad gave me the bottles and they were free.
I genuinely thinking we're picking on an a severally mentally disabled Asian nerd. I kinda feel guilty now bros.

>>18546779
Look around you. Is this not controversy? Sure he's young, privileged and naive but maybe he's fortunate enough to realize it as well soon enough.

>Gets absolutely mogged by ridge wallet leather man

>>18546824
Thanks anon. My only question is how the original has these cut off subjects in some sentences (not all??), like

"Think about leaving the house " (instead of *I* think about...)

and

"Wake up from the nap" ...

Which feels like a first-person imperative tense, whereas the spanish translation is just first person indicative. Is there a closer approximation to the mode the original author is trying to get through, like maybe a lack of self agency or a sense of being puppeted?

>>18546832
I wish he'd write in Chinese and hire someone to translate into English for him. His perceived IQ would go up by at least 10 points. Look at the thread, there are anons translating into Ukrainian, Dutch, Spanish. He might even find a Chinese--> English translator who'd do it for free or very cheap

>>18543724
>>18539093
>>18541374

>>18538306
do you really want it? i can deliver on pencil and paper if you really do.

>>18546892
Yes, please

>>18546892
YES

>>18546860
/Lit/ just spews hatred at Waldun so hard, he must be doing something right.

>>18546871
>Is there a closer approximation to the mode the original author is trying to get through, like maybe a lack of self agency or a sense of being puppeted?

Well it since its supposed to be something external or as you mentioned, being puppeted it should have used something like

"Desperte de la siesta"

Because the desperte indicates that was something not exactly on purpose, it just happen.

For the "Thinking about leaving the house" for something that lacks agency you need to change the structure a little bit more to reflect that it wasn't deliberated. Like:

"Algo me hizo pensar salir de casa" meaning that something external made you take the decision.

Not sure if that helps.

>>18546909
comfy pic.

>>18546779
>>18546793
Yeah I’m a native speaker. This was harder than I thought—his prose is awkward and turgid with cliches.

>>18546910
Can't find any examples of Desperte (not with an i) that aren't mistypings of either the preterite (with an accent) or the subjunctive (spelled despierte). This translation shit is harder than i imagined.

>>18546949
thanks anon -- my impression is that translating bad writing might be more pedagogic than translating good writing, because bad language stops our reading and makes us take time to parse.

>>18546909
The guys who actually hate Waldun are weird. I think most of us enjoy reading Walduns stuff because it makes us feel better about our own writing and the guy just lacks self awareness but he's so public. It's hard not to watch. It's like looking at a car wreck. It's hard not to look, even though it's bad to look. I try and always ignore wrecks but Waldun. Idk, man, his writing is entertaining even if it's not in the way he intended.

>>18542130
>using a typewriter
he's actually gone above and beyond faggotry levels previously unseen

>>18545500
Honestly, I think I could be either depending on the day.

>>18540104
>>18543724
>>18541862
>>18539093
>>18541374
>>18541606
1: Sabah 7'de uyan ve kısa bir telefon konuşmasından sonra geri yatmanın iyi bir fikir olduğunu düşün. Küçük bir kestirmeden sonra, kalkmak 10 kat daha zor ve şimdiden öğlen 11. Bu sefer sabah 7'de aradığım kişi bir sabah koşusunu bitirdi bile.

2: Mutfağa tökezle ve sorunsuzca pastırma ve yumurta yap. Mutfak masasındaki şarap bardağını kaldır ve yüzük şeklinde bir şarap izi keşfet. "Bunu kirama eklerler," diye telefondaki kişiye şikayet et. O bir çeşit karbonik temizlik çözümü önerir, ama ben Ajax'ın işi halledeceğine ısrar ederim.

3: Evden çıkmadan evden market alışverişi yapmak için çıkmayı düşün. Bu bir öyle bir böyle 2 saat için devam eder.

4: Sonunda, markete gidip bir anksiyete atağı daha geçirmeyi riske atarım çünkü Woolsworth'de başka insanlar var.

5: Eve gelip o kişiye "çalışmak" için birkaç saate ihtiyacım olduğunu söyle ve o saatleri David Sedaris'in Masterclass'iyle beraber 3 şişe şekersiz gazoz içerek geçir.

6: Birkaç saat sonra, o kişi hatır sorar. "Nasıl gidiyor?" Ona derim ki: "Hala çalışıyorum." Ama aslında, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol'un bir baskısının üstünde kestiriyorum. Kitap kestirmemin sebebi değil. Kestiriyorum çünkü bu fazla düşünmeye en iyi şifa.

7: Akşam 7 civarında kestirmenden uyan ve çalışma gününü sonlandırmaya karar ver. Dairede biraz dolaştıktan sonra, tüm kariyerimin çalışmak için bir uğraş olduğunun farkına var.

8: Akşam 8 civarı yemek yap ve şarapla beraber ye, şaraptan nefret etsem bile. Bir tek babam bedava verdiği için içiyorum.

9: Yemekten sonra arkadaşlarla, ailemle ve o kişiyle konuşarak 4 saati boşa harca. Bir bakmışım, gece 1.

10: Yazmak için otur. Gece 1:30'da yarı uyanıkken yazmak çok iyi çünkü fazla düşünmeyi kısadevreliyor. Çoğu durumda, ne yazdığımı sabah gözden geçirene kadar hatırlamıyorum bile. Bu, kısaca, taslak yazmanın zirvesi.

11: Gece iki. Yatağa atlıyorum ve hemen rüyasız bir komaya dalıyorum. Uyandığım zamana kadar, o kişiden bir arama var ve sesli mesajı bana inanılmaz sabah koşusu hakkında böbürleniyor. Kalkıyorum ve şimdiden saat 10:30. Benim gibi bir kişi için, saat 11'den önce olan herhangi bir şey açıkça yok.

12: Tekrarla

>>18547000
His being public means at least something is being done right, man.

how the FUCK is a thread about this faggot very fast

>>18547174
because we are planning to fuck his thigh assian boybussy.

Do you think that is hairy or pink and cute

Since life experience is the main fuel for artistic creation, you can't make worthwhile art as a young person unless you:
1 - Have a completely off the charts creativity (Mozart, for example)
2 - Go through extraordinary events in your youth (Rimbaud, for example)
Or anything in-between those two options regarding the level of creativity and frequency of extraordinary life events. Waldun checks neither. As long as he keeps "observing the streets" and hanging with his (also pseudo-intellectual) artistic friends in cafés he will never produce something great, and will be confined to writing about himself only, his own routine, thoughts and behaviour or any mirror image of that. This is also why masterpieces will become rarer the more the internet was present in the new artists' life: without real life experiences you don't have enough sensorial stimuli, resulting in a weaker impact from reality on your brain, thus your creativity has less material to work with and you can but regurgitate what you watched on a YouTube video or something.

>>18547411
What sorts of life experiences help create good writers?

>>18547190
Whats more dark academic: shaved or hairy?

>>18547444
Being poor, having to actually fight to live. Enduring excruciating physical pain. Cumming hard in a beautiful woman.

>>18537773
i love these threads

>>18547505
I'm there with you buddy! Would you care to read some of my writing? I'm definitely in the battle to survive now, have kids with a gorgeous woman, have endured much pain.

>>18547444
Any strong experience, be it utter suffering or extreme happiness. Experiencing life itself is the most important thing, the artistic inclination simply funnels those experiences into something worthwhile. Don't throw yourself in a pit though, like voluntarily injecting heroine because you want to "live life to the fullest" or some shit. Godspeed anon :)

>>18547532
Sure anon. I have been excruciatingly poor and have cummed on (but not in) a beautiful woman. Haven't probably experienced pain that I would describe as excruciating and I hope to skip that one.

>>18547550
I crawled out of the pit awhile ago... unbreakable now. Godspeed friend!

>>18547564
When my mother killed herself when I was 19, it hurt a lot at the beginning. It only got worse when the family didn't even have a funeral for her, and one of my uncles lost her ashes. She was forgotten by everyone, my brother became a gambling addict and moved away. He lives alone and doesn't talk to anyone. The hurt really began after a few years when I realized that despite my mother being kind, caring, and a genuine person, because she killed herself, people purposefully erased her from their memory. Still hurts 20+ years later, but hey, that's life...

>>18547586
Wow, that's actually pretty sad, anon. I'm sorry.
At least you are armed to write sadness with authority.

>>18547586
I'm sorry about that anon, I think I'd be proper for you to write about your mother and how the suicide doesn't invalidate everything she was and did for the people she loved. How you're gonna portrait that (plus the type of media) is your choice. Just don't stop after a bad draft.

>>18547586
I'm sorry anon. I really think you should write about your mother or write stories with a character based on your mother. A woman like that shouldn't be forgotten to the world

>>18542618
Stop flooding boards with your shit writing. Start a thread if you're so confident...otherwise fuck off.

>>18547629
Over the years I've met with strangers who have had suicides in their families... it is actually a fascinating, not sad, way to look at things when you examine the reactions in different families to deaths.
>Suicide is one way that sets off a bomb in families
Another one... was I had a persian friend, their father got lung cancer at a young age and suffered horribly. The thing is, half their family smoked, and the other half didn't. That set off a rift in their family that resulted in a few brawls in North Vancouver between the two halves. The non-smokers developed a hatred for the smoker side.
>To feel better about something that ails you, it is often helpful to witness how others handled, or didn't handle, it

>>18547571
>laptop right by the sink
u good there buddy?

>>18542618
>I’ll never forget my childhood growing up in Vancouver.
Wow! Starting with nostalgia...not cliched at all!
> A fusion of left wing altruism and right wing grit
Wow! That's sensical!
>Today, it’s clear. Either we’ve lost that quality of life, or we no longer share a culture.
Wow! So specific!
>Perhaps some of both.
Wow! So dramatic!
>What does it even mean to be a west coaster anymore?
Wow! Two introductions!
>A new and growing phenomenon we can attribute more to electronics and certainly to pandemics; many more say they feel the “Seattle chill,” -often seen in the wild as desperate posts of the lonely on City subreddits, victims describe a hard-to-connect social scene and often tepid commitments to plans with friends, if they even have friends at all. They say friendship is best when it happens naturally, you spend time and do things with people naturally in your day-to-day routine, and if culture indeed is transferred most naturally through tasks and struggles shared together, then consider the following.
Wow! Balls-out run on sentences and even reusing the same word 3 times in one of them!
>as opposed to being in a frozen hell-hole like the most of rest of Canada in the long, dark winter.
Wow! Balls to mention a more interesting setting...and then dismiss it entirely!
>We are witnessing public servants doing anything but serving the public, they serve themselves
Wow! What an original take!

Ok. Enough of that. Your takes are pathetic and you write like shit. You have nothing interesting to say and, even if you did, your writing is cliched and boring.

Go look in the mirror. You're a shallow narcissistic midwit. Reflect on it. Accept it. Fuck off.

>>18537773
>the pinnacle of drafting
Oh my god this is bad

>>18546649
Sorry I take that back retard detected

>>18547740

>>18547789

>>18547799

>>18547864

>>18542811
Haven't read any of his stuff so I can't pass judgement, really. But from reading the snippets in this thread it seems like he thinks he's way funnier than he is. Like, I get the insight here but he tries too hard to twist it into something comedic which is distracting.