History CreatorBreakdown / Literature

* Main/InUniverse in the first book of ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid''. Greg Heffley and Rowley Jefferson apply to be the authors of a new comic strip series after "Wacky Dawg" was discontinued by the board after noticing that the author, Bryan Little, started using the series to vent about his personal problems. Their series Zoo Wee Mama, would itself also lead to a creator breakdown after it became an in-universe meme. This is one of the major factors into [[spoiler:Greg and Rowley ending their friendship for a while]].

* Main/InUniverse in the first book of ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', we see Greg Heffley submit a new comic series after "Wacky Dawg" was discontinued after the author started relieving their personal problems in the issue.

* Frigyes Karinthy's obscure and borderline-misogynistic satirical novel ''Capillaria'' (in which giant sex-crazed women torment and devour a race of phallus-shaped dwarves) was written during Karinthy's second marriage. It was not a very happy marriage.

** In ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'', the author uses the ''I-Ching'' to help guide his book -- which was exactly the method Dick was using to write ''his'' book. And it shows.

* Creator/DouglasAdams himself admitted that he let his own mood affect the fifth ''[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' book. While the fourth (''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'') had been a giddily happy entry in which Adams brought back Earth and let Arthur Dent fall in love and have a lot of sex, the fifth (''Literature/MostlyHarmless'') was a dark and morbid affair where [[spoiler:Adams destroyed Earth again, made Arthur's girlfriend disappear from the universe in a bizarre misunderstanding of the nature of space-time, devised two different realities in which Trillian is a miserable cynic, and eventually killed all the main characters in ''every possible universe'']]. Adams later regretted this book and was thinking of fixing everything in a sixth, but [[DiedDuringProduction his death prevented this]].

** Following Rowling's vocal opposition to self-id for trans people, two subsequent ''[[Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels Cormoran Strike]]'' novels contained elements widely believed to be linked to the online backlash her statements provoked. A subplot in ''Troubled Blood'' involves a male serial killer dressing as a woman in order to more easily murder women. Strike is also forced to move house at the end of the book, due to the media's interest in his life. In the other book, ''The Ink-Black Heart'', the victim is an online content creator who's subjected to online harassment after making comments that were interpreted as racist, ableist and transphobic.

* Creator/JKRowling suffered from depression and suicidal thoughts while writing ''Literature/HarryPotter'', resulting in the Dementors, Harry's parental figures dying, and Luna's FriendlessBackground. She even revealed that, due to this depression, she genuinely considered killing off Ron "out of sheer spite". Even though she knew "in her heart of hearts" that she wouldn't actually do it, it just goes to show the sort of mood she was in to even consider it. She was so inclined to kill off the parental figures that she had to stop herself from killing off Arthur Weasley in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' once she realised that Arthur was the only positive ''living'' father figure in the series (but she "made up" for it by offing newborn Teddy's parents Lupin and Tonks in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''). But the biggest change is the deaths of Harry's parents; originally, they really ''were'' killed in a car accident for [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan convenience's sake]], but Rowling's mother passed away before she could tell her about the project, and Harry's parents' death transformed into a powerful magical HeroicSacrifice.
** Following Rowling's controversial statements on transgenderism and the subsequent online furore they provoked, her subsequently published books in the [[Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels Cormoran Strike series]] contained numerous elements widely believed to be influenced by the outcry and how it had impacted her. ''Troubled Blood'' contains a subplot revolving around a serial killer dressing as a woman in order to murder other women, and Strike at the end having to move out of his house due to widespread media interest in him, while the victim of ''The Ink-Black Heart'' is an online content creator at the centre of a controversy and online harassment based around comments she'd made that were interpreted as racist, ableist and transphobic.

* Similar to Nosaka Akiyuki, Creator/TakashiYanase suffered a severe case of PTSD after World War II ended. To cope with this, he became a children's book author and illustrator with a majority of his works having a melancholy tone that deals with depression and sadness [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids despite aimed at children]]. While ''Anime/TheKindlyLion'' and ''Anime/TheRoseFlowerAndJoe'' carried a melancholy tone. However, his most personal work is ''Chirin no Suzu'' (known as ''Anime/RingingBell''), [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory which is loosely based on his experiences in WWII]]. The story is an allegory for the effects of war and the negative side effects for innocent victims (mainly children who lost parents during the war). The story has since become very beloved with Japanese audiences and was adapted into a feature film by Creator/{{Sanrio}} in Spring 1978.

* The 2016 children's picture book ''Literature/OlliesOdyssey'' by Creator/WilliamJoyce has a very melancholy tone with [[CentralTheme death and the loss of a loved one as a major theme]]. This is due to the author still grieving over the loss of his daughter Mary Katherine Joyce, [[RealitySubtext who passed away from a brain tumor in 2010 at age 18.]] The 2022 Creator/{{Netflix}} [[Series/LostOllie adaptation]] emphasizes more on the griving process.

** Following Rowling's controversial statements on transgenderism and the subsequent online furore they provoked (which, for reasons of Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement, we will go into no further here), her subsequently published books in the [[Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels Cormoran Strike series]] contained numerous elements widely believed to be influenced by the outcry and how it had impacted her. ''Troubled Blood'' contains a subplot revolving around a serial killer dressing as a woman in order to murder other women, and Strike at the end having to move out of his house due to widespread media interest in him, while the victim of ''The Ink-Black Heart'' is an online content creator at the centre of a controversy and online harassment based around comments she'd made that were interpreted as racist, ableist and transphobic.

** Following Rowling's controversial statements on transgenderism and the subsequent online furore they provoked (which, for reasons of RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement, we will go into no further here), her subsequently published books in the Literature/CormorantStrike series contained numerous elements widely believed to be influenced by the outcry and how it had impacted her. ''Troubled Blood'' contains a subplot revolving around a serial killer dressing as a woman in order to murder other women, and Strike at the end having to move out of his house due to widespread media interest in him, while the victim of ''The Ink-Black Heart'' is an online content creator at the centre of a controversy and online harassment based around comments she'd made that were interpreted as racist, ableist and transphobic.