/lit/ - Literature

I'm working on outlining this piece which is like a sort of Indiana Jones meets The Mummy style knock-off that works as an exploration of identity and belonging during the inter-war period and a taste of the chaotic nature of the world at that time.

The problem I think I'm having is that I can't get the balance right between showing positives of in-out groups to go alongside the negatives I'm bringing up now and then and I feel like I'm not giving a clear message and my premise lends too much in terms of a futility towards things.

The idea is that the origin of the world is this kind of meta-myth style thing and all civilizations originally trace themselves back to this one original myth which has transcended space and time, the.deep unknown, primordial waters, fire theft, etc. And I'm starting to think that this being the case as revealed throughout the plot just removes a lot of the point of the book and the whole "we're all the same" shtick sounds a bit hackish in the end.