![]() The most creative works are those that can be endlessly reinterpreted and reinvented by readers. It is not possible to misunderstand a creative piece of writing-creative writers leave it to the reader to decide what their work means. It is possible to misunderstand an uncreative piece of writing. Should we then claim that he was more creative than Kepler?”įor Eco, the distinction lies in how a writer responds to interpretations of their work. Ptoelmy said something untrue about the movement of the Earth. “Can we say without a doubt that Melville, in telling the story of a nonexistent whale, had no intention of saying anything true about life and death, or about human pride and obstinacy? …It is problematic to define as creative a writer who simply tells us things that are contrary to fact. Nor can we define as creative solely writing that does not pretend to state the truth: Eco disagrees with the notion that we can make this distinction based on the function a writer’s work serves in society. ![]() Some languages draw a distinction between the kind of writer who creates texts out of their imagination and the kind who simply records information, such as a poet versus a court stenographer. Why is a bad poet a creative writer, while a good scientific essayist is not?” “I have never understood why Homer is viewed as a creative writer and Plato isn’t. It seems a given that fiction writing is inherently creative, but what exactly makes a piece of writing creative? “A text is a lazy machine that wants its readers to do part of its job.” In this post, we’ve extracted four of the key lessons for fiction writers from Confessions of a Young Novelist. Looking back on his career so far, Eco reveals some valuable insights into his writing process. But having published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, only twenty-eight years earlier, he considered himself a newcomer to fiction writing. ![]() Umberto Eco wrote Confessions of a Young Novelist in his late seventies. In Confessions of a Young Novelist, he shares some unique advice for writing fiction. Umberto Eco (1932–2016) was one of the bestselling authors of all time. ![]()
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