/lit/ - Literature

>>23032569
I've been writing a revenge thriller about a war veteran who's returned home and has cause for revenge due to family tragedy that was caused by debts the father had due to gambling and being threatened by the local goons to cough up. It's not schlocky or over-the-top and I try my best to frame the story in a way that the reader can take as something that is happening and can happen in reality. He takes quite a while to get anywhere and you see his degradation in real time as he goes on a suicidal bender of carnage. I'd post some but I'm too self-conscious of it. I actually was in the military for a while but got discharged so a lot of my emotions go into the main character. I put a female love interest out of force of habit but realized she really bogs down the story and the flow and her addition is not necessary. I've tried to blur the lines between you sympathizing for the MC and the mafiosos he goes after. I've tried to strike a balance between rule of cool and palpable emotions that I want to relay to the reader.