I don't know what it is, but I am absolutely shocking at understanding what is and isn't appropriate when it comes to rating things.
To cut a long story short, I'm toying with the idea of throwing drugs into this story of mine. Only marijuana, no Class A territory here, but said story is YA fiction. As such, I'm a bit sketchy on whether that's appropriate, and at what age the cut off point of appropriateness would be. Not going to lie, I grew up in a rough as hell area, so knew all about this stuff when I was pretty young. So yeah... I think it's given me a warped view of what's appropriate for what age.
I also kinda wanna use the f-bomb in this same story, not left right and centre or anything, but occasionally. Literally like no more than 5 times in the whole novel probably, it's just that in some dialogue, it feels right, y'know? If I were to throw the drug use into it, should I may as well throw said f-bombs into it as well (or vice versa)? Or is there a fair difference between drug-use and f-bombs in regards to appropriateness? It's just a struggle because on one hand, I don't want my YA fiction to be inappropriate for YAs, but it's quite a raw story that deals with some hefty topics, so don't want it to be sugarcoated.
I'm so clueless, it's embarrassing.
You can't really ask an expert on this kind of thing, so I guess I'm looking for opinions more than anything. Just anyone who understands ratings any better than I do which, let's be fair, is everyone.
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