- writing, authorship, composition, penning - the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
--1 is a kind of verbal creation
--1 has particulars:drafting; dramatization, dramatisation; fabrication, fictionalization, fictionalisation; metrification; novelization, novelisation; redaction; lexicography; versification - authorship, paternity - the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed"
--2 is a kind of initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration