Noun penning has 1 sense

• penning(n = noun.act) authorship, composition, writing - the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
is a kind of verbal creation
has particulars: adoxography, drafting, dramatisation, dramatization, fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization, historiography, metrification, novelisation, novelization, redaction, lexicography, versification
Derived form verb pen₁