Keigo Higashino was a success in his career change

All the accidents in life are actually destined for fate.

How wonderful the world of speculative fiction is, you can read Keigo Higashino's novels, and someone has given Keigo Higashino three "most" - the deepest, best-selling, and most representative writers in the field of speculative fiction. Others say he's the most handsome writer in the world of speculative fiction.

Of course, such a title is also a manifestation of his fans' lovers, but the truth is that looking at the current novel world, it is really difficult for writers of speculative fiction to surpass him.

I'll put Keigo Higashino's work in the second article, which mainly talks about his transformation and leapfrog road.

The working life of the scum

Higashino Keigo University is studying electrical engineering, just graduated in 1981, he was like an ordinary college student, chose to work with his own professional fit is relatively high denso company, but in this major he is really not a bully, whether it is assembly work or research and development work, are nothing, helplessly chose to participate in the UGC exam as a teacher, but toss and turn, but found that he is not the material of the teacher, the first transformation ended in failure.

The path to becoming a writer

The second time he set himself five years to try to write novels, but for a novice writer, the best way to find a place in the novel world is to win some literary awards, so he participated in the competition for the first time and chose the highest honor of Japanese speculative fiction, the "Edogawa Chaos Award", but the hastily completed "Tomb of the Doll" did not win the award, and the subsequent work "Magic Ball" also failed, so the first two years rushed by.

The road to full-time writing

With the experience of the first two years, the third year he left himself a way back, with the short story "After School" participated in the "ALL Reading Mystery Novel Newcomer Award", it turned out that the opportunity will indeed favor those who are prepared, he won the Edogawa Random Walk Newcomer Award that year with an absolute advantage, and became a hit, at the age of 28, Higashino Keigo won his first success in the novel industry, and the sales of "After School" exceeded 100,000 copies, which made him decide to go to Tokyo to become a full-time novelist.

However, the days of full-time writing fell far short of his expectations, not only did he not write sensational works again, but his wife finally could not stand the days of waiting and filed for divorce. After the divorce, Keigo Higashino began to reflect on his work, he decided not to deliberately cater to the tastes of the judges, a "secret" made him play a beautiful turnaround battle, and then he finally found his own direction, and successively wrote "White Night", "The Dedication of Suspect X" and other well-known works.

The path of the good

No one's success is accidental, Higashino Keigo is not, whether it is "After School" or "Secret" is his work after repeated research and reflection, ordinary people are catering to the public, but the really excellent people can create their own path, 40-year-old counterattack, bring us is not an adult encouragement!

If you're frustrated and confused about your inability to do anything, get to know this late writer and find the courage to start over from his experience.

Of course, Keigo Higashino's works also carry his experience, so which works of Keigo Higashino are worth reading?