/lit/ - Literature

I'm clumsy and my emphasis are lopsided. I'm reading PKD's Ubik now, I've never read anything by him before, odd to see that he's clumsy in almost all the same areas, in a similar way. Stumbling on descriptions of simple actions, describing every article of clothing on a person as a description, usually so quick and psuedo-nonsensical that it doesn't provide any description at all.
Of course, he's on a much higher level than I am. I'm constantly hitting walls in descriptions and can barely write half a sentence to describe a scene I'm uninterested in. I'm just wondering if I'm critiquing my own writing by the wrong measures, maybe I should embrace the pulpier half-amateur novel approach of pkd. But then again, I don't really care, I think aspiring writing and aspiring writers are stupid.