/lit/ - Literature

Well lads, it's been a year since I last posted in one of these generals asking for the interest/viability of a premise and idea I had. Proud to say that I'm just about to finish the first draft of that novel (just over 100k words).

It's been hard since my approach to writing is dependent upon 3-4 day bursts of incredible productivity at 4-8k words a day followed by months of braindeadness.

But thanks everyone. I really hope the final product will live up to the dreams that I had when I first started bothering you all about it.

>>7087385
Sounds interesting. Not the sort of book I would read, and it does sound a bit tryhardy in the literary sense.

>>7087352
>>7087381
Maybe I'm getting the wrong end of the stick, but this sounds like A Confederacy of Dunces brought into 2010s Britain. I love it; it sounds like it could be a lot of fun to read. My advice: don't get too pretentious with your writing, play it straight. It's already a very crazy set of characters and stories, so you want your reader to be able to read this without scratching their head.

>>7086808
I love it. It sounds like a really moving idea, and the number of characters gives the reader the chance to know more about the new world and the event, and get a load of emotional punches. Obviously don't throw a massive punch every chapter, but I think you can have a very sombre and moving book. Reminds me of the third act of Childhood's End, in the sense that there is a bittersweet goodbye to the entire species.

>my novel
Hard science-fiction set at an ambiguous point in the late 21st/early-mid 22nd century. Mars and until recently the asteroid belt were united in the Colonial Confederation - a league of colonies that seceded from Earth and recognised no political authority from the planet. The Earth does not recognise this, so the United Nations Space Fleet and the Colonial Confederations are at war. The Confederation is led by a man known as Magidan, who before the war singlehandedly imported millions of colonists and built up Martian industry using his own resources and will, and who is considered a colossus of his time.

The book follows Magidan's lover, a soldier from Earth who has been sent to kill him, and the chief of security at the Martian capital. The novel is centred around hero worship/the great man theory of history (Magidan and how he is seen so differently by so many people, always as more than just a man) and questions of political and personal liberty - is a person free even when just acting under their own will? Can man ever be truly free in a state? Is the frontier the only way to maximise freedom?

Mostly I want to write an enjoyable, accessible, and intelligent book with good characters, though.