/lit/ - Literature

>used to want to be a writer more than anything in the world
>spent years dreaming and reading
>wrote a handful of short stories
>give it up in my mid-twenties during a period of deep melancholy
>hardly even read literature anymore
>mostly non-fiction or technical literature
>go back and read my stories again for the first time in five years last night
>see a consistent and genuinely unique voice
>think on how much I've changed and if I could dare to want it again
>afraid to find out I've lost it
>afraid to give it the space it needs in my life

>>17859883
>mfw my brain can only handle 119 and i'll never be a good /lit/tle boy

Recommend me books that combine different types of narrative well. Traditional narrative mixed with epistolary documents, unreliable memoirs, nonfiction articles, things like that. The more eccletic the better. Thanks.

>Just found out Pynchon didn't received the Pulitzer for GR because of "that" scene.

>>12007814
>never got to talk to a qt about a book

FUUUUUCK

i don’t even want sex just a girl to be happy to see me FUUUCK MY LIFE

>22
>zero life experience
>unable to write anything meaningful/interesting/relatable despite what i think is good prose

>>10990417
>read 10 pages
>smoke break

>tfw someone chuckles while reading your short story
It's not a comedy