/lit/ - Literature

>>17251335
Why does he have shit on his face?

>>17251335
When one submits to Waldun, all are absolved of moods bizarre.

>>17251345
he doesn;t

>>17251335
Unfortunately you're right. Not the voice we need or want, but the one we deserve.

>>17251351
did he knew he had shit on his face when he took this picture?

>>17251488
there's no shit on his face.

Why do these booktubers always slowly develop a mental illness during the course of their youtube career? It all starts with them quitting their job and going off the rails.

>>17251335
stop shilling yourself, pignose.
That's another bad review on goodreads.

is this F Gardener?
please say no.

>>17251658
because i've been told that delicate people really pay attention to this sort of things

>>17251687
no. this is R. C. Waldun, who self-published a novel chockfull of ESL errors and is clearly about him being a pseud.
F. Gardener is a tripfag who writes paragraphs upon paragraphs of shit.

holy fuck i just watched the video in the other thread about this guy.
fucking cringe city.

>>17251665
The fact that they started a YouTube channel is already a sign of mental illness.

>>17251718
spoonfeed my the link, please

>>17251348
>Absolved of moods bizarre

Cringe. Here's a tip: don't write down gay shit you come up with while half-asleep as if it's poetry.

>>17251714
thanks. i just heard him read his own garbage on youtube. this makes me want to start a fucking youtube channel and read my own work right now. fuck i cannot stand this little faggot.

>>17251665
Did he do that? He seems fine to me. Just some soft boy who likes reading and writing a lot.

>>17251726
>>17251652
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG55KF8w_fw

wow so bad writing is seriously in vogue right now? bronze age pervert? this fucking kid?
what the hell is the point of refining my craft and attempting to follow in the tread of great writers when these phaggots indulge their lowest whim and get scooped up.
i sound bitter but i just enjoy being angry i promse.

>>17251743
his pronunciation is terrible.
he's clearly not a native english speaker and he borders on being incomprehensible. Even Zizek has better english.

>>17251665
>stop going to the one place you interact with other humans and have community
>go insane
hmm, how does it happen?

>>17251771
man you know.
something about that style of writing too.
almost like it sounds like a smug teenage girl or something. there is this melodramatic, zoomer colloquial characteristic to it that just makes me fucking sick. like please stop with the common turns of phrase. please stop trying so hard to have nuance, quirk.

>>17251771
>>17251796
its the golden age of fanfic. god save us all.

>>17251743
He sounds like early years Filthy Frank lmao.

>>17251743
Legit sounds like some 21st Century Notes From Underground

>>17251335
God, I want to punch him in the face so bad.
Seeing how he's a sheltered beta from a middle-class family who has never been in a fight, you just know he wouldn't even know what to do about it.

>>17251908
Don't be jealous of his intellect.
It's not a good look.

>all those teenage girl comments
You slave at your keyboard alone while RC Waldun films a reading of cw101nonficroughdraft1.docx with flocks of pussy hanging on every word.

>>17251963
They all have these romantic ideas of turning him straight, making him lift, making him get his driver's licence, making him move out of home, making him be there provider while writing YA essays about his ever enduring love for them.

>>17251957
I don't even know how smart he is, never read anything by him. His face just annoys me, that's the only reason.
However, since he looks like a mixed asian amerimutt, he's probably retarded anyway.

>>17251335
>The voice of a generation
Of those who don’t write, think, or have any discernible talent

Fake it till you make it.

>>17251488
>>17251999
checked

How can a Street have dull eyes?
What is the significance of the window next to the cafe?

>>17252281
Man never heard of a semi-colon has he?

>>17252281
Why does the smell of the noisy steam-machine settle him?

>>17252281
A stable anchor?
Like a solid anvil or a wet ocean?

>>17252281
well his tense goes from past to present pretty quick. ugh i can't even this is dreadful. such a whitepill for a writer though.
>>17252310
no anon, semicolons are gay, we don't like them. i doubt he knows that though; he probably doesn't know how to use one.

>>17252281
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

FUCK NO!
WAY!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>17252281
oh i get it, he's narrating himself writing this passage. clever.

He writes like a more honest Carver.

>>17252382
>he's narrating himself
>clever
lelll welcome to books my friend.

>>17252382
is that the excuse you're coming up with for his botched tense?

>>17252281
>I sat down at the cafe next to the window. It was a little chilly out, but it was warm inside. The smell of coffee and the noisy steam-machine settled me down as took out my throbbing cock. I looked out of the window at the streets with deranged eyes. A punk busker was setting up his guitar, but my hands were still too cold. Jerking was pulling too much skin, and my motion didn't have any rhythm.

>The barista was a short, fair haired girl who enjoyed hiding behind the glass cabinet of the pastries when I staggered in. The first time I came, I remembered her because she had this air of terror that never slipped. The cafe too had that air. It was a stable anchor to escape the chasing police. I usually sat at the table next to the window, for it allowed me to leer and jerk off to passer-by's without being seen. The table was still too clean, so I stood up and dribbled out a lousy load.

>>17252467
a fractional improvement.

>>17252435
esl here. can you point out the "botched tense?"

>>17252495
>The smell of coffee and the noisy steam-machine settled me down and I took out my notebook
>settled, took, both past tense

>It has been a while since I have written anything new
>has, have, both present tense

>>17252516
i see. so would the following fix it?
>It had been a while since I had written anything new

>>17252532
yes, that's correct.

Someone should start a channel where they read his essays and stories aloud but have a siren go off when there is an error.

>>17252347
Because he has autism anon : |

>>17252697
C R I N G E
If you're so Autistic that you need some kind of sensory stimulation to be able to read:
>eat or drink something
>listen to music (preferably instrumental)
>move your hand or something around
>read aloud
but please keep your focus and your eyes on your book.
It's that simple.

>>17251335
Nope, stop this bait, he is mediocre (at best), his stupid books are mere crap made by gpt-3

>>17251714
Based anon

His real name is Robin Wu, and he's a student at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He's a LARPer.

>>17253090
I think almost all zoomers are larpers

>>17252281
>I sat down at the window overlooking the rain glazed street. Chilly damp air radiated from the glass, but the warmth of the vent below me woke up my numb toes and red fingers like the smell of rich coffee and the rhythmic blasts of steam awakened my senses. It had been a while since I had written anything new, so I took out my well worn moleskine filled with blank pages. I looked out the window, frowning at the reflection of my dull eyes. Across the street a crust punk tuned a three stringed guitar under the awning of a pawn shop. I took out a pot of ink and a fountain pen and opened my notebook. Writing english sentences felt like pulling teeth, and the tenses made no sense. With my eyes closed in thought, I tapped my forehead with the fountain pen.
>The short, fair-haired barista at the counter giggled as she muttered something to the cashier. I turned slowly, curling my lips into a sauve smile. She ducked behind the glass cabinet of pastries, covering her face. She was always so friendly but it was clear that her feelings extended beyond polite customer service. I had seen her point me out to other employees, and on one occasion she snapped a photo of me through the pastry case glass. Her musical giggle filled the cozy cafe, giving it an air of friendliness. She was the maiden that tended to this humble cafe, my literary temple. I looked back out to the street. People had gathered around the crust punk, clapping and tossing money in his guitar case as he played a tune I couldn't hear over the Sirius XM smooth cafe jazz channel.
>They must just feel bad for him, I thought, there's no way a cheap, broken guitar could sound good.
>I shook my head and returned to the blank page in front of me. It was smeared with ink that had run from the pen onto my cuff. I wondered if Jamie Joyce had ever accidentally done such a thing.

i wanna kiss him

>>17252281
Genius

>>17253267
Crap
>>17253274
>>17253282
Go read Deleuze, you moron.

The learned disguise was a failure but some of his short stories were decent and I think we should encourage more people to literature. Especially since this kid actually seems to care about aesthetics and real literature instead of YA garbage. Plenty of writers first work is not great. Does anyone care about Nabokovs Mary? His first novel no they care about Lolita and play fire his 6th and 7th novel ditto for Melville

>>17253267
That prose, better than food-man.

>>17253505
No, he still sucks, everything he does is made by g.p.t-3 a.i, get it?

I shuffled off my burlap messengers bag and peacoat, slid into the booth, and took out my moleskin journal - the black one, not the brown one. It took me a few minutes to decide between pens. Finally I chose my second-favorite super-fine-tipped black pen, which didn't bleed too much, but still had a nice flat look when absorbed into the page. I opened my journal to page two, where I'd left off after I bought it last week. I gave a sigh and prepared to write. The ambiance of the dimly-lit cafe distracted me. I could see the baristas sliding past each other, almost dance, serving thirsty and cold wanderers like myself. I sat back unable to write, not because I was a talentless hack with no ideas, but because the objective beauty of my personal experience was overwhelming.

But as a writer, I had learned to sacrifice myself in a way. It was my duty to impart beauty upon my inevitably large audience, so I pulled away from the consuming perfection of my life and looked at the blank journal page. I pushed up my glasses and began the sacred work. "Once upon a time..."

Ten minutes later, I give my weary soul a break from its labor. A writer lives on coffee, so made my way to the bar for an order. I looked directly into the eyes of the tall maiden behind the bar and said "I'll take a coffee, if you've got any to spare." She smirked, obviously charmed, but to her probable disappointment, I had no intentions of flirting. "Cream and sugar?" she replied. "Black" I replied.

As I leaned on the bar waiting for my writers nectar, thoughts flew through my head about where to go with my writing. Not what I was actually writing, but how I would shape the wet clay of my career as an author. Then, it came to me. It was a revelation as subtle and beautiful as my presence in a cafe listening to smooth jazz and drinking black coffee: I would post a video to the internet explaining my intentions to write a story every day. That it could be done with exceptional benefit to both my development and my oeuvre was a given, but telling people on the internet of my intentions would be a source of hope and excitement for the viewers. I got my coffee, returned to my table, and stared at the page impatiently. My phrase "once upon a time" was surely a promising opening, but ideas for the thumbnail of the video were burning in my head. I had to pack up and leave.

>>17251335
He's basically female. Looks over content.

>>17252281
How can friendliness slip?

>>17251335
literally who???

>>17251335
>2021
>posting pictures of the gay chink pretending to be a white boy

>>17251335
This pudgy, epicene pseud is undoubtedly as soft in mind as he is in body.
>I never watched him
So yeah, you're probably right.

>>17253090
Tell him he's a gay chink when you see him.

>>17253505
He's a hapa, isn't he. Probably with an identity cresis so he pretends to be a white boi. I bet he has a white boyfriend.

>>17252310
No matter how many explanations I've read or watched, I've never understood how you're supposed to use this thing

>all those young ripe qts in the comments section
Thats it I'm becoming a writer.

>>17251714
to be fair the grammar and spelling errors in f gardner are also laughably bad

>>17251345
Don't be mean, I think his moles are cute. Anyway, being a cute twink is the only thing he has going for him.

>>17254121
This

>173k subscribers
Impressive. I thought this guy was just a spamming shitposter but he's actually got a decent online presence. Is he really self published?

>>17251908
K I N G
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>>17252600
based

>>17251743
Sounds like he is being subservient to old and tired tropes of adulthood. Maybe that changes by the end though, I personally couldn't sit through that.

>>17252281
I am gonna drop my creative writing class as I don't want to end up writing something like this and then being tricked into thinking its good enough to post on the internet

God I want this twink to pound me so bad

>>17252281
>How can a Street have dull eyes?
is the way that sentence was written considered incorrect?

>>17254225
If you have to ask - ngmi

>>17254137
Yeah, he’s not one of us unfortunately but a real influencer author

>>17254353
don't worry, i know

>the voice of a generation
The motherfucker seems to really struggle with English.
I feel sorry for him. He wants to be a writer, an intellectual yet he will never make it due to the road block of being a foreigner with a terrible grasp of English in a country where he can’t even fall back on his native tongue to get by.
He is doomed. Can’t communicate effectively within his community at all.
I just hope he keeps studying and goes into a real career.

>>17251335
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7MPHhGxWak

>>17254039
Have two related clauses and think it would flow better to not use a full-stop? Go with a semi-colon. Other than that, they're useful for listing items that involve commas

imagine all the melbourne pussy he must be slaying

>>17253676
gold

>>17251743
Oh my fucking God I couldn't take more than a few words.

>>17251335
>The voice of a generation.

More like the gayest chink of the zoomer generation.

>>17251743
The chink sounds nervous.

>>17254783
Got em.

>>17254597
Kek

>>17254597
L M A O B A S E D

I thought we dropped RCW for F Gardner. The latter is always begging for our attention and love while Waldun ignores us

>>17254493
That's a trivial problem. He can write a book in his native Mandarin and pay someone to translate into English. His family is rich, they can easily afford it

>>17253267
Haha not bad not bad.
A fat sight greater than the original.
t. brilliant writer

>>17254181
Good.
Just read what you wrote. That’s literally the only thing you have to do.
If you have good taste in what you read, your writing will be tasteful. Simple as.

He writes like a person who hasn't had any real life experience but is trying to make his trivial experiences more impactful than they really are.
War, addiction, grief vs. book shop job application, coffee shop barista interactions, University friendships
He needs to get out more.

>>17254493
He's good for an ESL

>>17255253
If not that, then he should use his imagination. He seems to be leering into the realms of autofiction but he isn't quite interesting enough for that.

>>17251743
The chink isn't a midwit, more like lower end midwit with a pig nose and tries so hard to act like a white nigger, it's kinda off putting.

>>17251335
Seeing a retard like him get a following, makes me believe in my chance of entering into the western canon

>>17253505
I totally agree. I'm still sad that we have no news of L'Académie, it would have been a really interesting read, particularly with his new beatnick-ish post-failure of the learned disguise personality.

>>17253505
>David Copperfield
What sort of a fag reads about a magician?

>>17253267
bro this is bad in a different way. Hope you weren't trying to prove a point.

>>17251760
I'd say the blame lays at the feet of self publishing. Any Dick and Jane can be a "published" author now. However, seeing how established publishers published Twilight and 50 Shades of Gray, there has to be another reason. Perhaps the biggest being that the majority of people don't read, and the ones that do read, they read below a high school level. Unfortunately you need to write for a niche audience in a niche medium.

>>17255847
E-celebrity is mostly a fluke. Having a small following of teenagers and being memed on an image board does not qualify as being part of the western canon

>>17256194
Hear, hear!

>>17252281
>The page was still blank

>another episode of /lit/ shitting on someone despite their own writing being even worse

I've stalked the critique thread and writing general you hypocrites

don#t even reply

>>17256933
Ok there nervous chink

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>>17253018
sneed

>>17252281
>he’s never looked a Street dead in the eyes

>>17251335
god I want to stretch out his boy pussy with my cock so fucking bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>17251714
is he not american

are you guys sure hes hapa i think hes simply chinese from america (australia apparently)

>>17251743
He's clearly not good at English, why not just write in his native language? I really don't get it

>>17251963
Dude they're probably 12

>>17251665
>have a superficial self you've convinced yourself of
>display it publicly
>it gets chipped away at overtime
have no sense of consistent self is unironically one of the biggest factors of mental illness so to have your identity destroyed publicly when it's very one dimensional i.e their entire personality consists of one or two things is likely what causes it same thing happened to q

>>17257331
listen to his pronunciation and tell me he's a native english speaker >>17251743

>>17251743
why didn't he hire someone to voice it for him, would cost under $20 and make it much more watchable

>>17251335
How tight do you reckon his man pussy is? Mmmm I bet it stinks as bad as his catalogue

desu his vids are pretty comfy and i really feel like he's coming into his own lately

>>17257980
aaannnnd that's another bad review on goodreads. stop shilling yourself on /lit/, pignose

>>17257989
You’re being awfully negative.

>>17257801
ok his pronunciation is off but do any of you have an idea where he might be from ? someone wrote australia i think maybe singapore ?

>>17257864
pretty tight but not for long, he is definitely going to experiment a bit in the near future in the hopes that will make his life more interesting and his writing better

>>17258029
Korea, I think.

>>17253267
F.gardner?

>>17258029
His real last name is Wu, so probably Chinese