/lit/ - Literature

I'm working on a massive project, I would like to hear somebody else's opinion on it.
It's still a work in progress, so bear with me:

The main character is not really a "character", but as I've defined it, a potentiality, a flux of Energy in William Blake's sense (when he says “Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy”). It represents destruction, drive, velocity, etc, but it's not "good" nor "evil", it's just speeding forward. The closest idea I have as a reference to this would be the film TETSUO: THE IRON MAN. It's essentialy "virtual", but it possesses actual bodies and situations. I know it sounds confusing, but if you read it you would understand.

That's one part of the novel.

I have a lot of confusion regarding this other story arc, even to the point of not knowing if I should throw it away entirely:

A paranoid schizophrenic detective arrives to a city inspired by my own city (Mexico City) where there are about 20 women killed daily. He doesn't actually know who he's working for, or why he's there. “So I am a public agent and don't know who I work for, get my instructions from street signs, newspapers and pieces of conversation I snap out of the air the way a vulture will tear entrails from other mouths.” He believes the reader might steal his thoughts so he is extremely careful as to what type of information he's revealing as he narrates. He's out to investigate the woman murders. He uncovers an internet cult devoted to the first character (The Flux of Energy), etc.

It becomes a supernatural sci-fi thriller or something like it.

So that's basically where I'm standing. I have a lot of ideas about the narrative / formal aspects of the novel but I won't reveal them. Maybe I have revealed a little too much about the story but I don't think anybody could write this shit down except me.

Sometimes I hate it, sometimes I feel like working on it, but it's mostly confusing as fuck. I would like to hear your opinions but also if you have any advice. I feel like I have absolutely no control over my novel and yet I can't work on anything else for the moment, I'm fixated on this, doomed. How does one work on something like this? Should I keep going? Or should I just device a regular, linear plotline and prevent myself from going insane?