I’m writing a revenge story. This guy or girl comes from a rich family. Their dad is a doctor and their mom is a lawyer. The kid is in their 20s and is a drug addict. Their family cut them off because of it.
The dealer kills them because they couldn’t pay the money they owed. Then a loved one goes after the dealer for revenge.
Is this good? I didn’t want to overcomplicate it by giving it a huge conspiracy, but at the same time, realistically, couldn’t they have gotten the money some other way?
From what I’ve seen & read, yes.
Doctors are often addicted to drugs, or just to medicating themselves.
I read an article by a woman who worked for a house-cleaning service, which ordered her to stop working too fast/competently.
So, she slowed-down, to keep her job.
& looked in cupboards, medicine-cabinets, etc.
She said that now she doesn’t want to be rich, because they’re consistently addicted to drugs/medications.
Hollow living … people trying to “fill” themselves with chemically-enforced numbness…
I don’t know if you ever encountered r/leaves the subreddit about people who’ve ditched marijuana-addiction…
“I got tired of not feeling anything meaningful” would be a good summary of many testimonies, there…
from what I can see, the story you’re working-on is viable, except the loved-one’s going to need a private-investigator or something, to level the playing-field against the streetsmart dealer.
no, they couldn’t have got the money some other way: born-into-wealth means being brought-up in entitlement: it makes one’s instincts incompetent-for-raw-survival, AND narcissistic.
( Dad was a medical-researcher & doctor: I know what I’m talking about in this context. )
Please read BOTH of John Truby’s books, “The Anatomy of Genre” 1st, then his one on Story 2nd.
Your book will be massively better if you do.
& if you want the best editing book in the world, it is Coyne’s “The Story Grid”.
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