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 novella is a work of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. The English word novella derives from the Italian novella, feminine of novello, which means new. The novella is a common literary genre in several European languages. 1 History.