/lit/ - Literature

>>17666926
I just came up with this now and I'm unsure which way to go. Years back lobotomies were seen as miracle cures for certain mental illnesses:
>reference to Rosemary Kennedy's lobotomy
>woman keeping journal who suffers from seizures
>historical setting
>her father hears about how lobotomies can cure seizures
>story follows her leading up to her surgery
>final entry is gibberish
or
>story about an insane asylums patient in the same time period
>one of his few privilege is being allowed to have a journal and a pencil
>story just follows his life there and the happens of the asylum and his afflicted thoughts
>his mental illness gets worse and they schedule a lobotomy
>final chapter is gibberish
I think the former would work better as a short story where as the latter would work better as a novel. I think an asylum setting would be interesting and I having the last entry be gibberish or clearly display the cognitive decline would be fun.