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== Comedy ==
* ''[[Adaptation]]'' is this in movie form—it's a film telling the story of adapting a book into the screenplay of what eventually becomes the film you're watching.▼
* ''[[FoxTrot]]'': "This is my fourth sentence. This is my fifth sentence. This is my second paragraph..."▼
** Jason calls his essay "a running first-person account of the process of writing a nine-hundred-word essay." ▼
** For the record, that is an "incomplete" article on writer's block {{spoiler|with a footnote which details (with references) the many reasons why the paper is unfinished.}}▼
** Also [https://web.archive.org/web/20080917005246/http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Writer's_block this].▼
* [[Dave Barry]] does this every so often.
== Comic Books ==
* This is how ''[[Fictional Document|Under The Hood]]'' begins in ''[[Watchmen]]''.
* In the song "Boat Drinks" Jimmy Buffett sang, "I should be leaving this climate/I've got a verse but can't rhyme it."▼
== Film ==
* "[http://consc.net/misc/moser.html This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself]".▼
▲* ''[[Adaptation]]'' is this in movie
== Literature ==
* In ''[[Breakfast of Champions]]'', [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s narration frequently goes off to explain what he was going through when he was writing it.
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': Hobbes ended up writing this story for Calvin after he tried time traveling two hours into the future to retrieve his completed story, only to find it hadn't been written yet. Unfortunately for Calvin, the class loves it, but it makes him look like a laughingstock.▼
* ''[["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'''s song "This Song Is Just Six Words Long" is about this.▼
* Belgian novelist Herman Brusselmans uses this trope on occasion, often as an introduction. The first sentence of ''De kus in de nacht'' (''The kiss in the night'') is as follows: "''As usual I have nothing to say and I will do so [[Doorstopper|for about 600 to 650 pages]], we'll see.''"
== Music ==
▲* In the song "Boat Drinks" Jimmy Buffett sang, "I should be leaving this climate/I've got a verse but can't rhyme it."
▲* ''[["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'''s song "This Song Is Just Six Words Long" is about this.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* ''[[FoxTrot]]'': "This is my fourth sentence. This is my fifth sentence. This is my second paragraph..."
▲** Jason calls his essay "a running first-person account of the process of writing a nine-hundred-word essay."
▲* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': Hobbes ended up writing this story for Calvin after he tried time traveling two hours into the future to retrieve his completed story, only to find it hadn't been written yet. Unfortunately for Calvin, the class loves it, but it makes him look like a laughingstock.
== Web Original ==
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▲* "[http://consc.net/misc/moser.html This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself]".
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