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When someone is contractually obligated to churn out regular humorous articles, they occasionally reach an inspirational dead end. Sometimes, to deal with this, they write an article about how they can't think of anything to write. This makes such pieces essentially forms of Metafiction since they typically involve the author writing about writing. Stephen Fry mentions in the book collection of his articles that every humor writer is allowed one and only one of these. Almost always a form of Self-Referential Humor. Sister Trope to Writer's Block Montage, which is a montage of an uninspired In-Universe creator trying and failing to produce something. Compare and contrast This Is a Song, which is a song that is at least partially about itself. Related to Most Writers Are Writers because Real Life writers often have characters who are writers too, which when gone meta, opens up several possibilities for Breaking the Fourth Wall. Go to Writer's Block, the general trope for when fictional characters struggle for ideas to put in their work. See also Making the Masterpiece, a dramatization of how a creator's magnum opus came to be. Might overlap with Padding, that extra stuff added to a fictional work purely to fill out time. |
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Watchmen: This is how Under The Hood begins. Nite Owl briefly ponders how to start his autobiography. He sets to ask his writing virtuoso of a neighbor, telling her that "[he] doesn't from writing a book". That he's got all he wants to tell in his head but doesn't know where to begin. It's only after following Denise's advice, and thanking her for it, that the actual narration starts. | |
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Pete the Cat: In "Begin to Begin", Pete is supposed to be writing a new song for his band, but has writer's block and keeps procrastinating. He eventually ends up writing a song about how he should not procrastinate and just start writing. | |
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The Storyteller: In "A Story Short", the eponymous storyteller is forced to tell a new story every day. On the last day, due to an outlandish series of events, he doesn't have time to think up a new story, so he tells the story of why he couldn't. | |
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This Time Round: Missing the Obvious was written for a "crystals" challenge on rec.arts.drwho. In it, Daibhid Ceannaideach's Author Avatar completely fails to write a fanfic about crystals. It opens with a parenthetical comment that he can probably get away with this just once. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Hobbes ends up writing this story for Calvin after he tries 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. | |
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Even Worse: "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" is about this, with "Weird Al" Yankovic spouting verse about how he can't think of any lyrics, so he'll just repeat old ones. | |
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Morris Minor and the Majors: "Another Boring B-Side" (the b-side of "Stutter Rap") details the cynical process of writing a song that most people will only listen to once. | |
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Ted: Tim Urban opens his TED Talk "Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator" with a description of his own last-minute writing of the TED Talk as an example of his process. | |
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Breakfast of Champions: Kurt Vonnegut's narration frequently goes off to explain what he was going through when he was writing it. | |
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Howard the Duck: An entire issue is about author Steve Gerber's writer's block. So it's essentially a comic issue that illustrates how the creator is lacking ideas for a comic issue. | |
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Animorphs: In The Android, Marco writes a school paper on the topic of how he hasn't come up with a topic for the paper. Later in the book, it's mentioned in passing that his writing about "the use of rhetoric to obscure a lack of content" got him a B. | |
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Adaptation.: It's a film telling the story of adapting a book into the screenplay of what eventually becomes the film you're watching. | |
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The City of Dreaming Books: This is the subject matter of the manuscript and it's specifically noted that the book should be a Cliché Storm by all rights. Yet, reading it convinces people that it's the greatest piece of literature ever put to the page. | |
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qxlkbh: By virtue of being Metafiction, it naturally has multiple examples. "41: untitled" features the guest author trying to make a guest comic. "82: behind the panels" has Andrew, one of the regular authors, attempting to come up with a comic idea. |
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Natasha Bedingfield: "These Words" is about the difficulty of writing a love song that really expresses how she feels about the person she's dedicating it to. | |
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Arthur, King of Time and Space: A semi-recurring theme in one arc is that Arthur hates "can't-think-of-a-joke jokes", but not as much as he hates failing to update his webcomic. In the space arc, Tristram thinks writing a song about being unable to write a song is "only funny once". |
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FoxTrot: One series of strips has Jason writing "a running first-person account of the process of writing a nine-hundred-word essay" for school, as part of a bet with his friend Marcus to see who can write the longer essay. Jason wins the bet, but his essay gets a poor grade because it's literally nothing but "This is my fourth sentence. This is my fifth sentence. This is my second paragraph..." | |
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Uncyclopedia: Its article on writer's block. | |
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8½: As early as The '60s, Federico Fellini makes a film about making a film when you've run out of ideas. | |
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Gwen Stefani: Her hit "What You Waiting For?" is about Gwen's writer's block during the making of her debut solo album, Love Angel Music Baby, and addressed to herself. | |
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