Chapter 135 Maugham's Enlightenment

"Should writing be considered a career? Or even a career?" asked a friend who loves writing. Don't dare to make the decision, if you send people astray with one sentence, it may harm the entire family of the prospective author. On this day, I read a story about the miserable life of the British writer Maugham before he "became famous": "In the first ten years as a writer, I couldn't make five hundred dollars a year, so I had to fight against poverty." Before the 1960s , with an annual income of five hundred dollars, which is actually quite a lot; many writers have been fighting "poverty" far longer than him.

Maugham went to London medical school. In order to obtain his medical qualifications, he worked as an obstetrician's assistant in a nearby poor street for three weeks. In addition to spying on women's privacy, he also paid attention to the behavior of passers-by; what he saw and heard became the material of his first novel.The novel reverberated a bit, and Maugham abandoned medicine and went to literature; moreover, the economy quickly fell into trouble; because the works that were released one after another did not sell well. "I'm so stupid that I gave up the path of being a doctor; if I write at night and practice medicine during the day, I don't have to be so poor that I have to eat the northwest wind." He is very regretful; "Image" has fantasies, hopes, writes innocently, shows love, and everyone is moved, so they buy books out of their pockets. "Doctor writer" lives a beautiful life.

Somerset Maugham should give some enlightenment to friends who love writing; of course, to be a doctor must be competent and concentrate, if you cut open someone’s belly, but your head is thinking about how to please rice readers, it is not a blessing for the patient; A writer came to saw his brains out. Unfortunately, when I become a writer, the book is not easy to sell, and the publishing house is considered dead grass and does not spend money on publicity. What can I do? Somerset Maugham paid for an advertisement in London newspapers: "I am a young millionaire, love sports and music, educated and gentle, and hope to marry a beautiful woman like the heroine in Maugham's novels." The advertisement was published for several days , All Maugham's works were sold out.

Use your brain and let yourself become a "millionaire" first; women will read books for money.