verbal creation - creating something by the use of speech and language

drafting - writing a first version to be filled out and polished later

dramatisation, dramatization - conversion into dramatic form; "the play was a dramatization of a short story"

fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization - writing in a fictional form

metrification - writing a metrical composition (or the metrical strucutre 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

indite, pen, write, compose - produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"

write about, write of, write on - write about a particular topic; "Snow wrote about China"

profile - write about; "The author of this article profiles a famous painter"

paragraph - write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher

dash off, fling off, toss off, knock off - write quickly; "She dashed off a note to her husdband saying she would not be home for supper"

rewrite - rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose; "re-write a play for use in schools"

write copy - write for commercial publications; "She writes copy for Harper's Bazaar"

dramatise, dramatize, adopt - put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"

draft, outline - draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech"

author - be the author of; "She authored this play"

co-author - be a co-author on (a book, a paper, etc.)

ghostwrite, ghost - write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"

annotate, footnote - add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; "The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel"

reference, cite - refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work"

write out, write up - put into writing; write in complete form; "write out a contract"

script - write a script for; "The playwright scripted the movie"

bowdlerisation, bowdlerization - written material that has been bowdlerized

title - (usually plural) written material introduced into a movie or TV show to give credits or represent dialogue or explain an action; "the titles go by faster than I can read"

written communication, written language - communication by means of written symbols

cryptogram, secret writing, cryptograph - a piece of writing in code or cipher

rewrite, revision, rescript - something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much better"

literary composition, literary work - imaginative or creative writing

literature - creative writing of recognized artistic value

literature - published writings in a particular style on a particular subject; "the technical literature"; "one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature"

matter - written works (especially in books or magazines); "he always took some reading matter with him on the plane"

literary criticism, criticism - a written evaluation of a work of literature

section, subdivision - a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical); "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section"

epilog, epilogue - a short passage added at the end of a literary work; "the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters"

paragraph - one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line

diary, journal - a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations

inscription, lettering - letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something

manuscript, ms - the form of a literary work submitted for publication

autograph - something written by one's own hand

treatise - a formal exposition

adaptation, version - a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel"

essay - an analytic or interpretive literary composition

editing, redaction - putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form

religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing - writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity

screed - a long piece of writing

Ayurveda - (Sanskrit) an ancient medical treatise summarizing the Hindu art of healing and prolonging life; sometimes regarded as a 5th Veda

document, papers, written document - writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

dramatic composition, dramatic work - a play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc.

dithyramb - a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing

plagiarism - a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work

transcript - something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech; "he read a transcript of the interrogation"; "you can obtain a transcript of this radio program by sending a self-addressed envelope to the station"

body of work, oeuvre, work - the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it); "he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre"; "Picasso's work can be divided into periods"

plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

written communication, written language - communication by means of written symbols

patristics, patrology - the writings of the early Church Fathers

written communication, written language - communication by means of written symbols

orthography, writing system - a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols

coding system - a system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages

capitalisation, capitalization - writing in capital letters

typewriting, typing - writing done with a typewriter

printing - text handwritten in the style of printed matter

handwriting, script, hand - something written by hand; "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible"

hieroglyph, hieroglyphic - writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)

skywriting - writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane

printing process, printing - reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication

notation, notational system - a technical system of symbols used to represent special things

activity - any specific activity; "they avoided all recreational activity"

coding, cryptography, secret writing - act of writing in code or cipher

handwriting - the activity of writing by hand; "handwriting can be slow and painful for one with arthritis"

inscription - the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words

notation - the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters