penning

Definitions of penning

1. noun

   the act of creating written works
   synonyms: authorship, composition, writing

   types:

   adoxography

   fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects

   drafting

   writing a first version to be filled out and polished later

   dramatisation, dramatization

   conversion into dramatic form

   fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization

   writing in a fictional form

   historiography

   the writing of history

   metrification

   writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition)

   novelisation, novelization

   converting something into the form of a novel

   redaction

   the act of putting something in writing

   lexicography

   the act of writing dictionaries

   versification

   the art or practice of writing verse

   type of:

   verbal creation

   creating something by the use of speech and language