minor works
Small creative output
Minor works are small-scale construction, renovation, or repair projects that don't require full planning permission or extensive regulatory approval: The bathroom remodel counts as minor works.
In literary contexts, minor works are an author's less significant writings—the sketches, occasional pieces, and lesser novels overshadowed by major achievements: Scholars sometimes find gems in a writer's minor works.
- bagatellesThings of little importance
- juveniliaImmature creative output
- draftsPreliminary written versions
- vignettesBrief evocative descriptions
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
rough drafts · nocturnes · preludes · miniatures · essays · pamphlets · rondos · sketches · epigrams · ephemera · novellas · addenda · fragments · études · marginalia · variations · annotations · miscellany
- publicationsbooks, book, newspaper, magazines, magazine
- bibliographybibliography, annotated bibliography, bibliographers, bibliographies, citations
minor worksmasterpieces
Works of supreme skill
major works · magnum opus · masterworks · canonical works · seminal works