Many of our categories overlap. Novels are a good example of a problematic classification.
Where would we place a religious novel? It could go either here, in Novels, or in the Kodesh (religous) classification, or in Fiction. If it is a translated novel, then the translator may want to subscribe to both Jewish Writing and also Hebrew Translating - and to discuss the translation aspects of the book on one group and the writing aspects on another group.
We on Jewish Writing will have to decide whether the book is primarily one classification, and then possibly link it to the other classifications.
Full length fiction will be classified as Novels. Shorter works of fiction will be placed in the Fiction category.

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For our purposes, what is the difference between fiction and novels?