The act of creating written works:
— Writing was a form of therapy for him.

synonyms: authorship, composition, penning.

Roget 593: booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule^†; tract, tractate^†; livret^†; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion^†, circular, publication; chap book.    part, issue, number livraison [Fr.]; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.    paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet^†; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream.    [subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause; endpapers, frontispiece; cover, binding.    folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo^†, sextodecimo^†, octodecimo^†.    encyclopedia; encompilation^†.    [collection of books] library, bibliotheca^†.    press etc. (publication) 531.    [complete description] definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation) 595.    [person who writes a book] writer, author, litterateur [Fr.], essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker^†, diaskeaust^†, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor^†; playwright etc. 599; poet etc. 597.    bookseller, publisher; bibliopole^†, bibliopolist^†; librarian; bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.    knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning etc. (knowledge) 490.    ... show more

Roget 590: writing etc. v.; chirography, stelography^†, cerography^†; penmanship, craftmanship^†; quill driving; typewriting.    writing, manuscript, MS.   , literae scriptae [Lat.]; these presents.    stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline; pen and ink.    letter etc. 561; uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic; contraction; Brahmi^†, Devanagari, Nagari; script.    shorthand; stenography, brachygraphy^†, tachygraphy^†; secret writing, writing in cipher; cryptography, stenography; phonography^†, pasigraphy^†, Polygraphy^†, logography^†.    copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting; signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist.    calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand.    cacography^†, griffonage^†, barbouillage^†; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble etc. v.; pattes de mouche [Fr.]; ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers.    stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter.    transcription etc. (copy) 21; inscription etc. (record) 551; superscription etc. (indication) 550; graphology.    composition, authorship; cacoethes scribendi [Lat.]; graphoidea^†, graphomania^†; phrenoia^†.    writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist; writer for the press etc. (author) 593.    ... show more

Dutch: auteurschap, schrijverschap
Polish: piśmiennictwo

The work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect):
— The writing in her novels is excellent.
— That editorial was a fine piece of writing.

synonyms: piece of writing, written material.

Polish: piśmiennictwo

usually plural The collected work of an author.

Polish: pisma

Letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language.

Dutch: schrijven, schrijfsel, geschrijf, geschrift, schrift

The activity of putting something in written form:
— She did the thinking while he did the writing.

synonym: committal to writing.

Dutch: schrijverij
Polish: napisanie