Seriously, why did he think it was a good idea to hire an editor on Fiverr to edit his novels? This is very clearly a bad idea to anyone with an ounce of sense, and everyone knows editing literature isn't just about checking spelling and grammar (which the ESL editor still left plenty of mistakes). Why didn't someone advise him to hold off on publishing the book until he can find a serious creative collaborator? Are Jay the Author and Jayden fake friends? They let him sleepwalk into viral humiliation and allowed his dreams of becoming a respected writer to perish in front of him.

>>24560910 (OP)
Did he really hire an editor from Fiverr...?

>>24560918
Yeah he confirmed it in a comment on KD's video, kek.

>>24560910 (OP)
>Are Jay the Author and Jayden fake friends?
They're all just as retarded as each other. They commit to the Neo-Beat larp and didn't recognise the Beat movement was made up of a lot of people with actual interests outside of social media larping. I wonder what Jay and Jaidyn are up to nowadays. Waldun is the only one making videos from what I can see.

>>24560949
lmao probably a jeet too

>>24560989
Like his entire audience.

>>24560918
>>24560949
The Fiverr editor was for The Learned Disguise which was published well before Waldun met Jay and Jaiden. OP is a faux Waldun scholar, a Faudun if you will.
For L'Académie, Waldun hired a vanity editor that he payed monthly or bi-weekly for over a year, spending upwards of $10,000 for her services. What's even worse, is the woman he hired didn't even read or edit the text. She passed the workload off to an assistant/secretary and then would discuss the edits done by the assistant/secretary with Waldun over Zoom. So basically Waldun paid for a giant scam and like the retard he is he fell for it for over a year, and L'Académie still came out as a piece of shit despite him spending over $10,000 on it.

>>24561105
Thank God Waldun's parents are high up in the CCP and $10,000 is chump change to them.

>>24561105
How do you know this?

>>24561183
Waldun publicly revealed as much in the videos he was making during the whole process. He also posted screenshots of his emails with the vanity editor, in which you could clearly read "Sorry, my assistant hasn't finished reading your most recent draft and making comments so I don't have much to discuss." Waldun also revealed they were meeting monthly or every other week, I forget which, but obviously that isn't free. That costs money, and he promised to after The Learned Disguise to pay for a "better editor". Waldun met with this editor for well over a year, I honestly think it was for two years. He paid for two years worth of service. There's no way that was cheap. I'm estimating $10,000. But there's no way to know how much he paid, but you could probably do some googling and see how much a "freelance editor" will charge you to edit your novel, and then multiply that quoted cost for two years worth of service. The you'll get an idea of how much money Waldun wasted on his shitty novel.

Honestly, the reason I know so much is I used to be one of 4chan's top Waldun scholars. But after he gave up on writing, Waldun was no longer interesting so I stopped studying him.

>>24561354
>top Waldun scholars
lmao what do i have to do for my book to get a scholar?

>>24560989
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO WAY, SO THAT EXPLAINS SHIT LIKE "THE PROSES, SIR, THEY FLOW!"

shows you how pretentious this board is, sucking minicock on the offchance he might send it their way

>posting this retarded chink grifter
Istg these are made by bots

>>24561354
Hmm, sounds like he invested a lot of time (and money) into it. I wonder if he tried to find a real publisher. Amazon says: "Publisher: Literary. Publication".

>>24561669
He self-pubbed it. You can make-up a publisher name when you self-pub. But here's how retarded Waldun is. He initially tried to get it traditionally published. Obviously that didn't work out. But he did get offers from vanity publishers where he'd have to pay some $2000 to $5000 dollars to get it published. Waldun said no to that because he wasn't going to pay to have his book published as that's a scam. So what does Waldun do? He pays an editor for two years, costing way more than the vanity publication!

>>24561706
What name should I make up for my publisher? I was thinking Pinguin Pros.

>>24561549
they are craving minicock

>>24561354
>he gave up on writing
he didn't. just be patient. he's going to release a masterpiece soon. i just know it.

we believe in you, waldun.

More like WalDUMB haha jk, love you Wally.

>>24560918
>In a future without Bluetooth...
>L'Academie
Yeah, and he held a competition to get people to design covers for free, lol.

>>24562926
if you dare, you can read this crap for free at https://files.catbox.moe/n1l2zh.pdf

>>24561749
He has a book deal with Bloomsbury. Manuscript due in December.
https://youtu.be/NVQysu8i9ek?si=dY3fi4qSymwb_2CQ

>>24563205
He is basically the Shakespeare of our times, so I'm sure it's going to sell really well. I will put in a pre-order myself for as many copies as they will let me buy.

>>24563037
I've read the first half or so of it already. The main thing I remember is the first 2 or 3 chapters are exceedingly long and, with regard to the thread topic, an editor would have told him he needs to break them up.

Can i get a QRD? I don't visit lit often enough.

>>24562926
>I've got earbuds in my ears
>Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh help me Niggerman I'm going insane!!!!!!!

>>24563443
He's a psued larper who goes to great lengths to pretend to be a fin de siècle intellectual. Obsessives on /lit/ have been stalking him for years

>>24561354
editor is right next to landlord and usurer on the extermination list

>>24563037
>https://files.catbox.moe/n1l2zh.pdf
847 uses of "Eddington", what is this shit?

>>24563205
No he doesn't. He explained that all that was was him writing review/recommendation blurbs for certain books. Waldun has no "book deal".

>>24563757
>What is this shit
The main character's name, idiot. That's like asking why the word Frodo is repeated thousands of times in Lord of the Rings.

>waldun shags literary arthoes on a weekly basis while /lit/cels seethe
i'm thinking he's based

>>24560910 (OP)
does this faggot not do anything else but pose fagly in dark academia clothes?

>>24565608
>>24565670

It's because he has a sense of style. It's not just about intellect. The man has style and charm. He's one of the most attractive people on youtube right now. There are rumours he may come out with his own fashion line.

>>24565715
>bla bla bla i am gay for chink twinks
could have just said that

wow he paid for an editor and the editor still made all those mistakes?/

>>24565884
probably got one from fiver

oh please as if any of you could write a book even half as good asl waldun

>>24563205
Wow, this is the first time I've heard his voice. He sounds just like Jet Neptune and it's cracking me up.

>>24565886
I certainly can't. I mean there are arguably a few writers out there who might be as good as him but definitely nobody born in the last 30 years.

>>24560910 (OP)
I edited my own and it’s still probably has some issues. Editing is less of an issue if the starting content was good.

>>24563037
It’s not awful but just lacks a spark and seems too up its own ass. Needs some grit, intrigue, mystery or something to pull you in in the first few pages.

Also “The Regime” ? They let that slide through editing? Why would a regime call itself the regime. I wouldn’t shit on anyone for writing a book because it takes a lot to put something out there and finish it but it seems like Waldun got taken for a ride if he really was paying an editor

Watching YouTube reviews for Waldun’s book and as much as I find his whole schtick irritating I think the reviewers shitting on him are worse. Feedback and criticism is one thing but these people are just bitter slobs. Look at this guy:

https://youtu.be/3GyChCD3rdA?feature=shared

Book is probably not great but there is way worse slop out there and big chungus here takes it as some kind of heresy that the kid wrote a lousy book. I mean he’s seriously giving him a hard time for a missing accent mark.

>>24566527
Maybe that's just what people call it, but it has an official name of its own.

>>24563704
You are Waldun. You made this thread as a way to seemingly blame the quality of your book on a fiverr editor by hiding the excuse as a criticism. No one talks about you on /lit/ except for you. Good luck on the book though, hopefully it's good and you sell copies.

>>24566550
You clearly don't know your Waldun lore. KDBooks is the one who reviewed Waldun's first book, A Learned Disguise. He was much nicer in that video as he acknowledged it was a first attempt. In the video he explicitly addresses Waldun and tells him that if Waldun ever writes another book, he would edit it for FREE. Waldun even comments on the vid suggesting he might take him up on the offer. To which KDBooks responds at tells him that he's completely serious about editing his next book for free.

Eventually Waldun does start writing another book and instead of taking KD's offer he wastes an estimated $5,000 - $10,000 dollars on "editors". Waldun completely deserves to get dunked here imo

>>24566550
>I mean

>>24566651
real writers edit their own work

>>24561105
That's hilarious

>>24566651
So do you think Waldun deserves the scorn? I’m neutral. I missed all the Waldunlore. I get the vibe he’s wasn’t a real /lit/ user but was just trying to farm the place?

>>24565670
Yes, he also does butt-sex...like a fag.

>>24565559
"I know what it is. It's a stupid name, that when repeated every other sentence is distracting to the point of being comical." said Eddington.

>>24568387
what's up with all this homophobia? reminder that /lit is a fag-friendly board

>>24565715
>There are rumours he may come out with his own fashion line.
his cousins can do the sewing

>>24568634
Just reporting the news. The facts aren't my fault.

>>24563443
Some guy who posts on /lit/ was in his social circle and hated him. Posted his videos and made threads about his upcoming book. When it was released it was as terrible as people thought it would be and spawned a series of threads that lasted about a week. There was some pretty funny content in the threads, people mock analyzing homosexual subtext in his work, but its a had to be there type of thing and not really worth revisiting (unless he writes another book).

>>24568849
>in his social circle and hated him.
someone hating on the player? quelle surprise

>>24560910 (OP)
>>24563205
Lol how can people fall for this phony? I guess some people really want to believe that le dark academia meme aesthetic can be a genuine lifestyle too.

>>24568639
Made me kek.

>>24564105
Why does he say in the video he's writing a book then? That'd make him a liar, which I don't doubt

>>24570965
I watched the video and now see I was wrong. He's probably writing self-help slop. It's definitely not a novel or work of fiction lol. It will probably be very similar in nature to the book he wrote a blurb for https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/all-the-work-you-shouldnt-do-9781350470576/

>>24571034
The guy just can't write for shit, can he