As I writer I totally agree with you on the first hand knowledge part. I never try to write about things I haven't either experienced first hand or done WAY too much research on. Other writers don't agree, but it's something that you can most definitely take you out of the story. Like K3 being known as "Kill 3", where you get weird hallucinations, but kinda makes you horny, but also cold and hellish, and ppl are all addicted to this drug because it's so...horrible? Ngl, that was sus.
Yeah, I'm the same way. And this is how it should be for all writers. Even in genres like Fantasy, plot points and character behavior still need to be believable and tethered to reality.
What kind of stuff do you write?
No cos I don't want to get a caught up on random things but I thought this too, not necessarily the price but how there was nothing to gain from actually taking the drug like why would someone take something that would make them hallucinate and fear for their life. And yes I do think that authors do not know what drugs do if they're writing like this because I'm just so confused by the interpretation of a substance like this.
For the longest time I wrote mostly from personal experience, but recently I've been getting into more fiction and having fun with it. I love creating worlds and in depth characters. It's fun to let them tell me what they wanna do, and when I'm writing sometimes 6 hours will go by without even noticing!
How about you, what do you write?
That seems like an awful drug. Why the fuck would anyone take that?? It makes you cold, gives you shortness of breath, and makes you hallucinate. Seems more like a drug withdrawal than a high. And $800 is INSANE for a drug that basically turns you into a junkie with minimal reward. NO drug costs that much, wtf!
Side note, I notice this a lot - in anime and manga/manhwa where drugs are shown or mentioned, it's always blatantly obvious that the author has never done or been exposed to drugs. Which is a good thing, but I wish they'd do more research on drugs before writing about them, because when their drug knowledge is based off of what they see in movies/read in comics, then you end up with insane shit like this.
Yeah, it's a weird thing for me to focus on, but it feels like lazy writing in a story that's made me have to suspend my disbelief on quite a few occasions. That being said, I do still really like it thus far. Reading it on tappytoon because I felt bad, having read 3 other stories by this author for free.