Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: In letters written in November 1865 an important conceptual change occurred : the `` story '' has become a `` novel '' , and from here on all references to Crime and Punishment are to a novel .
Simplified: In letters written in November 1865 an important change had happened : the `` story '' has become a `` novel '' , From then on , Dostoevsky always spoke of Crime and Punishment as a novel .