...I think that my novel is literary.
Forgive me. I'm still not clear on what literary is, but the last few weeks I've been in here reading up and it's making me think that it is. The tipping point was hearing some of you say that a literary novel has nothing to do with flowery prose, but is more to do with the novel being deeply character driven. That's what caught my attention. My prose is somewhat affectless and sparse. I like to leave a lot of space for the reader to see the character between the lines.
I have a plot, a small one, but it's all I need: My MC moves to the city to get away from his one-road town and the friends and the drugs... When he arrives he finds that most of what he was running from followed him, including attention from an ex. Over the story, the MC gets a new partner, and the ex starts to show she isn't just going to leave alone by causing trouble for him--small things that build throughout. There's a theme of lonliness, partnered with digital dependency that seems to be seperating him from his friends rather than helping them be closer (he knows some guy halfway round the world who's just been promoted but fails to see his missus is crying beside him--that kinda deal, although I've been careful not to preach; I'm raising questions but not answering them).
That kinda thing. Anyway. Sorry, it's been a long day and I've got a buzz on. Now I'm very happy with my work on this. It excites me just writing about it here. Does it sound literary?
If so, by the time editing is done, it should be around 60K.... Is that okay?
I've probably, in my excitement, skipped over some detail or another that's vital to you being able to answer this question, so I'll pop back in a bit--maybe a week given the traffic in this section (joke)--to make sure there's nothing else you need to know before you're able to sort my head out, which at the minute is as busy as a bag of cats.
Kind regards, you little beauties.
Forgive me. I'm still not clear on what literary is, but the last few weeks I've been in here reading up and it's making me think that it is. The tipping point was hearing some of you say that a literary novel has nothing to do with flowery prose, but is more to do with the novel being deeply character driven. That's what caught my attention. My prose is somewhat affectless and sparse. I like to leave a lot of space for the reader to see the character between the lines.
I have a plot, a small one, but it's all I need: My MC moves to the city to get away from his one-road town and the friends and the drugs... When he arrives he finds that most of what he was running from followed him, including attention from an ex. Over the story, the MC gets a new partner, and the ex starts to show she isn't just going to leave alone by causing trouble for him--small things that build throughout. There's a theme of lonliness, partnered with digital dependency that seems to be seperating him from his friends rather than helping them be closer (he knows some guy halfway round the world who's just been promoted but fails to see his missus is crying beside him--that kinda deal, although I've been careful not to preach; I'm raising questions but not answering them).
That kinda thing. Anyway. Sorry, it's been a long day and I've got a buzz on. Now I'm very happy with my work on this. It excites me just writing about it here. Does it sound literary?
If so, by the time editing is done, it should be around 60K.... Is that okay?
I've probably, in my excitement, skipped over some detail or another that's vital to you being able to answer this question, so I'll pop back in a bit--maybe a week given the traffic in this section (joke)--to make sure there's nothing else you need to know before you're able to sort my head out, which at the minute is as busy as a bag of cats.
Kind regards, you little beauties.