/lit/ - Literature

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william faulkner
leo tolstoy
patrick white
william gass
john updike

2019
>live alone in different country
>no internet in my apartment
>can't understand the television
>read for 2 hours every morning before work
>listen to lectures on youtube at the gym after work
>get home every afternoon/evening and write for hours
>read before bed until I fall asleep
>never felt more engaged with this art form in my life

2020
>return home, live with parents to begin with
>corona locks it all down
>lose job
>try to read in the morning, mother is watching morning news programs from the living room
>dad smoking cigarettes on the patio
>try to sit in my old room and read and haunted by a regressive energy
>try to write on the computer, sister wants to read over my shoulder
>sisters sit near the front room with their friends
>haven't finished more than 3 books this year...

I realise it's my responsibility to read and write no matter what, but I feel so powerfully influenced by my surroundings and always have. I'm so susceptible to distraction. I've become really good in the past at designing the perfect environment for my temperament but I have never managed to overcome the distractions when they're present. Does anyone else have similar experiences? I'm the kind of guy who used to go to the library to finish assignments and I was amazed by how the "going to work" attitude of it all resulted in thousands of extra words a day.

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