Writer Reflection

Part 2:
a.) The characters I usually write about are more tied to real life and most of them have some kind of struggle. In one story I had a detective that was an alcoholic and had lost his son to tuberculosis. I am drawn to these characters because they are gritty. They have faults which is how actual people are.

b.) My characters seem undeveloped in complexity. I would like to have very rich, complex characters but that has always been something I struggle with.

f.) I like creating characters out of nothing. Making an entire "person" with words and giving them room to move around in is very interesting. Also the fact that somebody else might read my story and find commonality with the characters would be amazing.

Part 3:
a.) W. Somerset Maugham was raised in the UK by his uncle.

b.) Maugham had a large family. He had 5 other siblings though one died only a day after his birth. The family was also very distinguished with Maugham's father and three uncles being lawyers. After both of his parents died before he was ten he had to move in with his uncle Henry Macdonald, whom he disliked. It doesn't seem like he had much of a family life after the death of his parents. Maugham would go on to marry and have a daughter. This was not happy ever after since Maugham and his daughter Mary disputed in court as to whether she was actually his. Mary won the trial after 21 months.

Stories I'd like to read from Maugham would be "Razors Edge, The Moon and Sixpence, The Magician, a short story entitled Rain and The Gentlemen in the Parlour"