novelize
Verb

novelize (novelizes, present participle novelizing; past and past participle novelized)

  1. To adapt something to a fictional form, especially to adapt into a novel.
    Herbert was able to novelize his experiences as a soldier into a compelling action drama.
  2. (dated) To innovate.
    • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 38,
      […] the novelizing spirit of man lives by variety, and the new faces of things.
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