To approach this another way: The [syntax for type-name](https://sqlite.org/syntax/type-name.html) permits this CREATE TABLE statement:<code> CREATE TABLE MyStory ( Firstly I came up with a plot, subsequently I fleshed it out creating a draft, whereupon I cleaned it up for publication ); </code> Your story better resembles the SQL accepted by some other DBMS without quite being legal input to another DBMS, but that is not enough to make SQLite choke on it.