Even more concerning is that by weakening our emotional armor we make ourselves more vulnerable to things like failure, rejection, anxiety, and stress. So stop the self-criticism and protect your self-esteem when it's low by practicing self-compassion.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: A novel is a long prose narrative that describes fictional characters and events in the form of a sequential story, usually. The genre has historical roots in the fields of medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella.
A novel means a book-length story. In between is the novella: you might fit 3 or 4 novellas into a reasonable-length book. If a story takes more than one book, it becomes a series. If there are exactly three books in the series, it's called a trilogy.