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Please, people. Unless you actually know drug dealers, I strongly suggest you do not write about drug dealers.
Please, people. Unless you actually know drug dealers, I strongly suggest you do not write about drug dealers.
Adding to this just a bit:
1) Smart drug dealers do not use their own product*, so any drug dealer talking about how good their shit is is NOT a smart drug dealer, and thus, should be written as an idiot, not some suave criminal mastermind.
*The exception to this is weed.
1) Smart drug dealers do not use their own product*, so any drug dealer talking about how good their shit is is NOT a smart drug dealer, and thus, should be written as an idiot, not some suave criminal mastermind.
*The exception to this is weed.
If the drug dealer you write IS a moron, they might talk about how good their shit is, but this is a low level fool. If you write them as the head of some massive criminal org, rewrite it. These are the people cops pick up for quota padding. They& #39;re essentially harmless.
2) Drug dealers, even fucking moronic ones, definitely do not start talking about how much they& #39;re carrying or how good it is or where it came from ESPECIALLY to people they do not know at all.
If you wrote a scene like this, rewrite it.
If you wrote a scene like this, rewrite it.
Drug deals do not go down, exclusively, in the bathrooms of biker bars. If you wrote this, rewrite it. People get drugs at work. At home. In the whole foods parking lot. Tons of dealers take fucking VENMO these days, man. And not just bougie white dealers either.
Remember that drugs are just another form of commerce. Not everyone is shady. Not everyone is a moron. Write your characters like you respect them, and like they respect themselves. If you can& #39;t do that, your story is going to get rejected.
One more thing: Leave your middle class morality and your fucking DARE class lessons at home. If they show up in your writing, you probably shouldn& #39;t be writing crime fiction.