Meanings
nounnovelcraft (uncountable)
- uncountableThe art of writing novels.
We hear much of “stagecraft” nowadays, little of novelcraft. Yet I suppose technical dexterity — the choice of an appropriate and significant medium — is as vital to the novel as to the drama.
1921, The Contemporary Review, volume 125, page 59
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