/lit/ - Literature

>promise to yourself you will read at least 100 pages today
>read only 25 pages today

>>7853572

>have plenty of free time to read
>choose to spend 95% of it shitposting on 4chan

>try to talk to people to make friends
>think things are going well because we share interests and have good discussions
>a couple meetings later
>they always make up excuses before breaking contact with you or just straight up tell you to leave them alone

>tfw don't like Star Wars
>tfw don't like Game of Thrones
>tfw don't like Marvel movies
>tfw don't like rap music
>tfw don't like video games
>tfw don't like many popular youtube channels

There's literally nothing I can connect with to a normal pleb human.

>>7406651
>>7406683

>tfw someone in the government is analyzing your psyche by all the weird fetish porn you're watching

>tfw one page an hour

I have to read a sentence over like, ten times for me to even understand it on a basic level, and even then I'll usually get confused as to what's going on and then have to go back and read previous sentences.

>think about novel in head
>perfectly structured masterpiece with the most psychoilogically complex characters put through the most complex and unconventional plot exploring the deepest themes of the human condition
>try to actually write novel
>give up after two poorly written paragraphs


how to writers do it?

>>7109882

>tfw want to read this book, but afraid that people at the bookstore will laugh at me for buying a meme

>try to become a homeless drifter to gain literary experience
>tell this to a group of homeless men
>they laugh and call you a pleb
>get so upset I return home after only an hour away

>third grade at school
>recess
>reading Henry James's Portrait of a Lady
>kids walk up to me and ask what I'm reading
>I tell them and say it's my favourite book
>they tell me that The Wings of the Dove and the Ambassadors are superior in their depth of psychology
>I tell them it's not true
>one of them says, "I bet you think Turn of the Screw is genius."
>I say I really like it
>they laugh and call me a pleb

>go on bus
>read book
>teenagers laugh at me and call me a nerd
>have to put book away

the only time I try to read in public...

>only read 120 pages today