Uhm, someone needs to go visit a dictionary and look up the definition of "novel". To make it easy, I'll provide a link to a nice explanation of what makes a novel.

Look, there's an incredibly long page dedicated to the definition at Wikipedia, too!


You see, there's a particular phrase that comes up when talking about what a novel is (other than "longer than a novella") and I can't quite put my finger on it. Fun? Fishy? Filigreed? No... fictional. (also longer than a short story)