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* The end of the second season of ''[[Digimon]]'' has TK (Takeru in the Japanese version), who has written books based on their adventures in the Digital World.

* The endings of both the anime and the manga versions of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' feature this in the end, although in two separate ways. In the manga, there's some brief quotations from Azmaria's memoir about her adventures with Chrono and Rosette. In the anime, Joshua is shown working on a storybook about "a boy that goes on an adventure with his sister and a demon to see the astraline!" referring to Rosette and Chrono. {{spoiler|However, the horns damaged his mind so much that those are the ''only'' memories he seems to have of the two of them.}}

* In ''[[Letter Bee]]'', Vincent Alcott is a down-in-the-dumps writer we meet in the first season who wanted desperately to be a great writer is an utter failure. Then {{spoiler|in Letter Bee Reverse (season 2), during the final battle against Cabernet, he's scribbling in a notebook. It's later revealed that dear old Vincent wrote about it and got famous.}}

 

* The original comic of ''[[W.I.T.C.H.]]'' has the oracle showing the girls a possible future, to cheer them up, where they all reunite as adults. Adult Will then reveals that she just wrote a book about their adventures as [[Magical Girl]]s.

 

* George McFly, at the end of ''[[Back to The Future]]'', has written a book inspired by Marty's radiation-suited visit to him in 1955.

* At the end of ''[[Enchanted]]'', Nathaniel has written a self-help book, and Pip has written a memoir.

* In ''The Umbrella Coup'', Pierre Richard's character only realizes that he has been involved in a [[The Mafia|mafia]] [[Mob War]] at the end of the movie, when his partner (an undercover policewoman) spells it out for him (throughout the movie, he thinks he has been hired by a movie studio for some method acting). He then decides that the story would make a great movie, and the epilogue, he is a famous film director with [[Money to Burn]].

* In ''[[Misery]], Paul's agent pitches him the idea of writing a non-fiction book regarding his experience, he elegantly disregards it as a cheap shenanigan.

 

* ''[[The Book of Lost Things]]'' has this near the end. It states that the book you're reading is the one the character wrote. It then gets confusing because things happen in the end that don't happen until after he wrote it and published. So you're reading things in his book that the character says he wrote but couldn't have despite actually happening.

** Well, he obviously didn't have [[Protection From Editors|Protection From Supernatural Editors]].

** With an ending by Samwise, of course.

*** And then found and translated long after by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], of course. See [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]].

* In one of the later Little House books (I believe it's Little Town On The Prarie) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, sister Mary suggests that since Laura is now teaching, she'll also write a book. Laura finds the idea hilarious. Of course...

* Used in the novel ''[[Murder in Moultonboro]]'' (which you haven't heard of; everyone who has knows the author personally). The hero, Harry, doesn't initially like the idea, though. When Harry's friends suggest that he write a book about some of his strange cases, he answers, "What the hell would I do with a book like that... shim up my fridge?"

* ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor]]''. Throughout the book there are references to pulpy holothrillers with names like "Luke Skywalker and the Dragons of Tatooine", and at the end we find that the character who researched and wrote up something about the Mindor incident sold it to one of the holothriller companies for an absurd sum of cash. Luke's not happy about this, but grudgingly gives in and insists on some rewrites. It doesn't matter if the holothrillers liked it as it was, he can be very persuasive.

* The classic book ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'' (and the movie too, one would guess) is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|an interview made by a guy to a vampire]]. It is implied that Louis (the vampire) destroyed the record afterwards, but in the next book on the series (Lestat the Vampire) the book has been published to the world. Then Lestat himself took over that custom and started writting his adventures, with each successive book referencing the former one.

* A [[Mind Screw|mind-warpingly meta]] example is implied by much of ''[[The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica]].'' To wit: Most of the Caretakers of the Geographica are famous authors, especially of sci-fi and fantasy. The implication is pretty strong that they get a lot of their ideas from the Archipelago.

* In Jack Williamson's ''[[Darker Than You Think]],'' one of the characters plans to write a book warning the world about the Witch Breed but it—the book you're reading—is dismissed as pulp fantasy.

 

* The last episode of ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' has Rob Petrie writing his autobiography and subsequently being offered the chance to write his own sitcom based on his life as a comedy writer.

* The [[Made for TV]] and later released on home video movie ''Noah's Ark'' ends with Noah writing down his adventures, and expresses concerns that someday, people will say they weren't even there. Indeed, the movie's story is a mixing of the [[The Bible|Biblical]] stories of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and, of course, the Flood... ''in that order''. The character of Noah is sort of a mashup of Noah and Abraham, except that Abraham never lived in Sodom.

* In the ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' episode "Brunch", where Ted, after hearing his parents' less-than-impressive story of how they met ("I think it was in a bar"), declares that when he's older, he's gonna make sure to tell his kids the ''full'' story of how he met their mother. Fast forward twenty-four years to 2030, and he does, although as far as we know he never published it.

 

* The musical of ''[[Little Women]]'' does this.

* Subverted in ''[[Avenue Q]]''. Princeton thinks he's finally discovered his purpose in life when he sees a kid fresh out of college just like he once was: put together everything he's learned about struggling through life after college and make a Broadway show out of it. The recent grad flips him off and leaves, and everyone else thinks it's a bad idea too.

* [[Older Than Steam]]: In ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' Bottom, thinking the fantastic events of the play were [[All Just a Dream]], says that "I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called ‘Bottom’s Dream’, because it hath no bottom;"

 

* If you stayed on good terms with Martin Summers through [[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]], he sends Kyle a letter explaining he's going to write a new novel based off of him. Kyle isn't much of a reader and Summers isn't much of a writer, so his reaction is less than enthusiastic.

* At the end of ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'', one NPC says that he's written a book about Mario's quest, entitled ''Paper Mario''.

* One of [[Jeanne D'Archetype|Leliana's]] possible comments at the end of ''[[Dragon Age]]'' is that she might write a book about the game's events. . .but that she'll leave out details about Fereldan food, which isn't any good even at the palace.

* Zigzagged in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]''. Orlan Durai didn't say that he wanted to write a book about Ramza's brave struggle against Ultima and her cult, neither there's a sequence showing him do so. But the book, the Durai Papers, is written anyway—in fact the entire game is about Alazlam Durai [[Framing Device|storytelling it to you the player]].

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[The Word Weary]]'' is a comic by John Kossler about John Kossler, who's writing a comic. [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/09/17-september-2011.html Issue 75] featured him wondering what he should do for in-comic comic's next update- he finally settled on a joke that was used in [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/03/15-march-2011.html issue four.]

 

* Shin spends a good chunk of ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'' working on her book. The epilogue shows that it was pretty successful, even if it was usually interpreted as allegory.

* At the end of the ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' episode "He Said, She Said", Bree suggests that Daniel should come over and they can make a video about the phone call they are having. Daniel replies, [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?|"Wouldn't that be boring?"]]

 

 

 

* Evan Wright wrote about what he saw in Iraq, titled Generation Kill, this is also lampshaded in the [[Generation Kill|television series]].