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* One of [[Hercule Poirot]]'s friends in ''Third Girl'' is a middle-aged mystery-writing Englishwoman, much like [[Agatha Christie]], who tries a spot of amateur detecting. And, in accordance with the tropes of the genre, {{spoiler|is clonked over the head shortly thereafter.}}

** [[Agatha Christie]] has several characters who are writers, including Ariadne Oliver and Miss Marple's nephew Raymond West, both of whom appear repeatedly in supporting roles throughout her stories.

* The protagonist in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s non-[[Discworld]] short story "Final Reward" is the author of a long-selling series of barbarian fantasy novels.

** From the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, William De Worde started off as a [[It Makes Sense in Context|freelance letter writer]], then later becomes a newspaper publisher and journalist in ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]''. Appropriate when one realizes that Pratchett was originally a journalist himself.

* [[The Musical]] of ''[[Little Women]]'' uses this, of course, following the book, but it's amusingly evident when Jo, in the song "Weekly Volcano Press," supposedly reading aloud her story, reads something that sounds more like a script for a ''musical'' ("The forest is dark and spooky. Clarissa enters, her clothes in disarray...") than a past-tense short story normally would.

* Mark from [[Rent]] is a would be film maker who has written a few screenplays. (Which he burns.) His friend Roger spends the musical singing about how he wants to write a song.

* Occurs twice in the canon of [[Stephen Sondheim]]: the Broadway songwriting team of Franklin Shepard and Charley Kringas in ''[[Merrily We Roll Along]]'', whilst both Georges in ''[[Sunday in The Park With George]]'' are artists who struggle to be understood and accepted by their peers, [[Author Avatar|much like Sondheim himself.]]

* Cliff Bradshaw in ''[[Cabaret]]'' - naturally enough, because the show ultimately derives from novelist Christopher Isherwood's memoirs kept while he was living in Weimar Berlin.

== Webcomics ==

* Slick from [[Sinfest]] is sometimes seen trying to write a literary masterpiece. He also does poetry slams in the earlier strips.

* The Shakespeare character in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' works in an office doing some sort of writing, and writes ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Fan Fiction]] on the side.

** Well, he is [[William Shakespeare]], you know.

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