/lit/ - Literature

Took a couple of melatonin pills hoping I'd get that cool feeling from when you've just woke up. I only feel sleepy and with a headache. Bad idea, do not recommend.

>>20153643
How do I get points?

I'm at Hades and dropping it. I'm not enjoying any of it. I can see the meanings behind meanings thing - probably to state that ordinary life is as epic as an odyssey, loaded with higher meanings (as above so below). But I don't get most of the references and the plot is dull. The prose is fine, I found some brilliant verses here and there. After all I know it's my fault. I'm clearly not prepared to tackle Ulysses - maybe because I'm too young and naive. I know this for sure because The Portrait is the book that touched me the most, so I trust Joyce. I'm just angry at myself for not enjoying it. Reading Ulysses feels like a chore, but not reading it makes me feel as if I'm losing on an incredible joke everybody gets but me.

The story I was publishing on a local magazine got cancelled for "being too introspective and dramatic". At least they asked me to write something else. One-shots this time, and focused on humour because "the reader doesn't want to be sad". I need ideas now.

>envision a cool scene
>sit down to write
>become retarded
Why does that happen?