Subsections as an enumerate

Question

I want to have subsections named all the same with a number behind it. The straight forward approach I came up with is this:

\section{User Stories}
\subsection*{Userstory 1}
This is story 1
\subsection*{Userstory 2}
This is story 2

But I though isn't this possible as a list? So I have tried a few things but none worked. I have just learned the basics of LaTeX, and I want to try some more advanced tricks in LateX, but it won't work. I have tried this and some things very similar to this:

\section{User Stories}
\begin{enumerate} [label=\subsection*{Userstory \arabic*}]
    \item This is story 1
    \item This is story 2
\end{enumerate}

Is this behaviour even possible to automatically? What is the best approach, for not typing the number and the title every time. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Perhaps this would suffice.

\documentclass{article}
\newcounter{userstory}
\def\nextUserStory{\stepcounter{userstory}\subsection*{User Story \theuserstory}}
\begin{document}
\section{User Stories}
\nextUserStory
This is story 1
\nextUserStory
This is story 2
\end{document}

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If I understand Fiona's comment, she would like to have an option to label stories. EDITED to reflect egreg's comment at Fiona's related question Cross references to "false" sections (see "subsections as an enumerate"). In particular, \refstepcounter is needed in lieu of \stepcounter, and the \label need not be part of the \nextUserStory macro.

\documentclass{article}
\newcounter{userstory}
\newcommand\nextUserStory{\refstepcounter{userstory}\subsection*{User Story \theuserstory}}
\begin{document}
\section{User Stories}
\nextUserStory\label{storyA}
This is story 1
\nextUserStory
This is story 2, which refers to story \ref{storyA}.
\end{document}