penning
Putting words down
Penning is the act of writing, from the implement once used to do it.
The word sounds slightly literary or old-fashioned: She spent the afternoon penning a letter to her sister.
Penning also means confining animals in an enclosure: penning the sheep for shearing.
Fenced livestock enclosure
- fenceBoundary structure between properties
- paddockSmall fenced animal enclosure
- coopPoultry enclosure
- cageBarred confinement structure
stockade · kennel · stall · aviary · hutch · run · enclosure · yard
Original text before publication
- draftPreliminary version of text
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- scribbleWrite without care
- handwritingManual letter formation
calligraphy · transcription · notation · parchment · ink · quill · pencil · prose
Detention facility
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- cellBasic unit of life
- detentionTemporary official holding
- captivityState of being confined
incarceration · restraint · lockup · internment · imprisonment · quarantine · isolation · custody
Writer of prose narratives
- biographerOne who writes lives
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- ghostwriterUncredited hired author
coauthor · drafting · memoir · autobiography · journalism · fiction · nonfiction · storytelling
corral
Fenced livestock enclosure
cage · stockade · kennel · stall · aviary · hutch · run · enclosure · yard · compound
manuscript
Original text before publication
- draftPreliminary version of text
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- scribbleWrite without care
handwriting · calligraphy · transcription · notation · parchment · ink · quill · pencil · prose · essay
jail
Detention facility
captivity · incarceration · restraint · lockup · internment · imprisonment · quarantine · isolation · custody · trapped
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- biographerOne who writes lives
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
ghostwriter · coauthor · drafting · memoir · autobiography · journalism · fiction · nonfiction · storytelling · publication
- writingwriting, drafting, authors, author, books
- cattle ranchingcattle, cattle drive, cattle drives, cattle auctions, cattle branding
- confinementcell, cage, prison, jail, imprisonment
- Herdingherding, flock, flocks, herds, shepherd
- Writing Activitiesjotting, scribbling, note-taking, typing, keying
- livestock workherding dogs, cattle drives, shepherding, gathering, mustering
penningtyping
Entering text via keyboard
keyboarding · dictating · word processing · texting · recording
penningreleasing
Allowing to escape
freeing · liberating · letting loose · setting free · unleashing
- penning inConfining to enclosed space
pen, pens, penned, penmanship, pent