/lit/ - Literature

>>11917680
Can someone give me some advice about my problems?

I yearn for a creative outlet but I'm not sure what. My heroes are Joyce, Borges, Proust, Kubrick, the Coen brothers, and various comedians. I'm getting very good at digital and social media marketing, I make a living doing it, I nerd out on it a lot, but I would like to do something more creative. And I want to be great at it, I want to move people, I want to create art. I've tried writing fiction on and off. All of my friends have told me at some point that I could do standup comedy/comedy writing, but I don't know if I am funny or they're just fucking stupid.


I've been alternating between Ulysses and In Search of Lost Time for 1.5 years now and have not finished either of them. Every time I start a different book I feel like it's not as good as Joyce/Proust and I get frustrated and put it down and try Joyce/Proust again. The only thing I read entirely through was Ficciones, Nichomachean Ethics and Madame Bovary. I've began and stopped in the middle of over 50 books in the last 2 years, always stopping to go back to Ulysses or ISOLT. The worst part is it completely goes over my head, and I have no literature education aside from 101 and 102 classes in college.