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* The Creator/Channel4 UsefulNotes/{{Teletext}} soap opera ''Park Avenue'' ended with one of the characters announcing that he'd successfully sold a soap opera based on the street to ORACLE. FridgeLogic when you consider that ''Park Avenue'' was full of topical references, and had started four years earlier...

* A very common 19th-century literary device. In Charles Dickens' ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'' and Jonathan Swift's ''Literature/GulliversTravels'', the book is written by the hero, as a memoir of the events narrated, and will make occasional references to the present ("Looking back upon that time, I feel...").

** While Yui's dream to write fairy tales for children is no secret since the beginning of ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'', she eventually realizes that's what she really wants to do. And sure enough, in the Distant Finale, ''The Princess and the Key of Dreams'' based on the Pretty Cure's story is shown to be as popular as Haruka's old favorite book.

** While Yui's dream to write fairy tales for children is no secret since the beginning of ''Anime/GoPrincesPrettyCure'', she eventually realizes that's what she really wants to do. And sure enough, in the Distant Finale, ''The Princess and the Key of Dreams'' based on the Pretty Cure's story is shown to be as popular as Haruka's old favorite book.

* ''ComicStrip/MadamAndEve'': One story arc [[https://madamandeve.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/madam-and-eve-archive.cgi?shown=1&comic=794 (starting here)]] features Eve writing and starring in a play about working for the Andersons. [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs They don't find it funny,]] but it becomes a critical success.

* The final panel of ''Webcomic/{{Jon}}'' depicts Jon drawing a panel of ''Garfield'' based on his pets.

* The ''Anime/MyHime'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/ElementaryMyDearNatsuki''. Inverted. Natsuki didn't set out to write a story, just to set down the events of "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire" on paper to keep them straight in her head, only to find out that it reads much like her favorite detective stories. After some teasing from Shizuru, Natsuki submitted it to ''The Strand'' and found that not only did they publish it, they also paid well for it and asked for more. She comes to suspect that Shizuru had been hoping for just such an outcome

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

* In ''[[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticTheTommyWiseauShow The Tommy Wiseau Show]]'', WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic ends his phone call to Wiseau with, "I don't know [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs what you're on,]] but I'm totally gonna make a sketch [[TakeThatTitForTat mocking the fuck out of you guys."]]

* The reason why people write memoirs and autobiographys.

* The reason why people write memoirs.

* Zigzagged in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''. 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 [[FramingDevice storytelling it to you the player]].

* The end of the [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 second season]] of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has TK (Takeru in the Japanese version), who has written books based on their adventures in the Digital World.
** Before that, in the [[Anime/DigimonAdventure season one]] dub Tai (Taichi) says, "This would make one great story. Of course no one would ever believe it."

** In the game's finale, Orie decides to compile the events of the game into a book as a gift to Tirug, and requests the protagonists of each arc help summarise. She names the book [[MetafictionalTitle "Tales of Asteria"]].

* In the credits of ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', art is shown of Estelle writing a book; when she closes it, the cover pretty clearly has "Tales of Vesperia" on it, though it's written in the game's made-up runic language. Whether the book ''is'' a straight-up adaptation of the game or some kind of children's story about Brave Vesperia's romps and adventures is up for debate.

* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' quote above [[HilariousInHindsight gets (unintentionally?) parodied]] late in the series, when it turns out an ordinary citizen, who had acquired a psychic connection with O'Neill, attempted to publish the team's mission reports as books for years...[[TakeThatUs unsuccessfully]]. Also, there's "Wormhole X-Treme," the SelfParody ShowWithinAShow that acts as [[CelebrityParadox the SG-1 of the SG-1 universe]].

* In ''[[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticTheTommyWiseauShow The Tommy Wiseau Show]]'', WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic ends his phone call to Wiseau with, "I don't know [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs what you're on,]] but I'm totally gonna make a sketch [[TakeThat mocking the fuck out of you guys."]]

* ''LightNovel/WashioSumiIsAHero'': Sonoko's a great writer even at eleven. She mentions wanting to one day write a novel loosely based on her friends.

* In ''Manga/KoreWaKoiNoHanashi'', this is suggested in the beginning. Oogaki thinks that Haruka's presence around Shinichi could result in a love story with a large age-gap and tells Shinichi, that he should write such a story. Shinichi begins to write the romance novel, though he insists at times that the concept is similar and not [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial about their own age-gap]].
* The endings of both the anime and the manga versions of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' 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 ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'', 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.]]
* Mizuki Kawashita drew a manga adaptation of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's play ''Sonezaki Shinju'' (The Lovers' Suicide at Sonezaki) in which [[spoiler: Tokube and Hatsu faked their famous double suicide and ran away, and that Tokube wrote the play using Chikamatsu Monzaemon as his pen name]].

* Inverted in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'': [[spoiler: Fakir]] [[RewritingReality Rewrites Reality]] at different points (thus, he writes "about" the events of the story), however, the first time he does it successfully (and possibly with all of the others), he burns the "story" afterwards.
* Much of the last several chapters of ''Manga/WanderingSon'' revolves around Nitori writing what essentially is a novel version of the series.

* In the penultimate episode of ''Manga/ComicGirls'', Kaos-chan's manga that finally gets accepted is ''Comic Girls".
* [[SchoolNewspaperNewsHound Sayuri Ibe]] in ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'' attempts {{invok|ed}}ing this when the incident [[spoiler:regarding Ao's impending move out of town]] is resolved by [[spoiler: Ao and Mira living together]], since she is one of the people invited to the Earth Sciences Club to brainstorm this issue. Upon hearing the resolution in Episode 9 / Chapter 28, she tells Ao and Mira the entire story "sounds like it comes straight out of a soap drama" and would like to write it in the school newspaper, but they run away before Sayuri has the chance to interview them deeper.
* Chapter 191 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' spin-off series ''We Want to Talk About Kaguya'' has Ishigami giving Karen the idea for a series where two characters engage in a DuelOfSeduction based on a conversation he had with Shirogane back in Chapter 162 of the main series. She immediately gets to work on something that she titles ''Kaguya-sama Wants to be Confessed To'' and even comments that [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall it's a good enough idea to win the Shogakukan Manga Award]]. This is actually a bit of AscendedFanon, as Karen being the in-universe author of the series had been a popular fan theory ever since the reveal early on that she drew [[RealPersonFic Real-Person Fics]] about Kaguya and Shirogane.

* ''Film/ThrowMommaFromTheTrain''
** The bonus: ''two'' completely different books about the same events.

* The events of ''Film/StandByMe'' are being told in a book written by the now-adult main character (also the narrator), which he is shown finishing at the end.
* ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' reveals at the end that Joan Wilder's latest book is suspiciously similar to the events of the movie we just watched, although the ending is a little different.
* Bob's "Death Therapy" book in the epilogue of ''Film/WhatAboutBob''
* The movie ''Film/{{Duplex}}'' has the main character trying and failing to write a book throughout the movie, mostly due to his upstairs tenant. The end of the movie shows his published novel, also titled ''Duplex'', presumably about the events he experienced during the movie.
* ''Film/AlexAndEmma''.
* In the third ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' film, we learn that Evie has done just this, publishing the books as fiction.

* ''Film/ChasingAmy''.
** Similarly, the adventures of Jay and Silent Bob in ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' and ''Film/{{Clerks}}'' becomes "Bluntman and Chronic."
* At the end of the Bela Lugosi movie ''Film/VoodooMan'', a producer considers making the events of the film into a movie. The hero suggests that Lugosi would be a perfect choice to play the villain.
* ''Film/RaceToWitchMountain''

* ''Film/AKnightsTale'' ends with Paul Bettany's Creator/GeoffreyChaucer saying that he should write the events of the film as a story. Bonus points for also including the implication that the story could be ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''.
* The film ''Film/BetterThanChocolate'' ends with the revelation that the protagonist eventually published a book called (wait for it...) ''Better Than Chocolate''.
* Near the end of ''Film/MySassyGirl'', the main character Gyeon-woo not only written a book based on the movie's events, but it's being made into a movie... Wait...
* In the Jackie Chan fantasy film ''Film/TheMyth'', his character has written a book of [[TitleDrop the same name]] at the end of the movie, and it is dedicated to his [[spoiler: DeadSidekick]].
* In-universe, the protagonist of ''Film/RepoMen'' writes ''The Repossession Mambo'', which is the title of the RealLife novel on which the film was based. He does this in the ''middle'' of the movie, and even [[spoiler: kills an attacker with the manual typewriter he'd just finished writing it with.]]
* In ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'', poetry-loving monk Brother Gilbert is trying to write an epic like ''Gilgamesh'', and decides to frame it around the adventures of the protagonist Bowen. Not a book per se, but as the film takes place in a time before novels were common, it otherwise fits.

* ''Film/MoulinRouge'' uses [[Creator/EwanMcGregor Christian]] writing a book as BookEnds for the film's story. Satine even tells him when [[spoiler: she dies]] that he needs to write their story.
* ''Film/LittleWomen1994'': Jo is inspired to write a novel about her life with her sisters when going through her sister Beth's things after she dies. (This does not happen in the book, although the Jo of the books does become a successful author.)
* One of the events depicted in the epilogue of ''Film/{{Elf}}'' shows Buddy adapting his experiences into a bestselling children's book.
* In ''Film/TheUmbrellaCoup'', Pierre Richard's character only realizes that he has been involved in a [[TheMafia mafia]] MobWar 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 for a great movie. Cut to the epilogue -- he is now a celebrated film director at Cannes with MoneyToBurn.
* In ''Film/{{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.
* At the end of ''[[TheFilmOfTheBook The Egg and I]]'', Claudette Colbert [[BreakingTheFourthWall turns to the camera and says]], "I could write a book!"
* ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' ends with Ammon mentioning to Bubo that the tale would make a fine heroic poem or play.
* Francis Ford Coppola's ''Film/TheOutsiders'' opens with Pony Boy writing the story in class.
* In ''Film/AThousandWords'', Jack is shown bringing the book to his own publishing company to work out a deal.
* The film version of ''Film/OnTheRoad'' ends with Sal Paradise, quite appropriately, typing out his experiences on a long scroll. It's mostly appropriate, except that the real-life Creator/JackKerouac didn't finish the novel for years later, causing many of his fans to believe he was still a twentysomething adventurer, when in reality he was a middle-aged alcoholic suffering from chronic depression.
* ''Koko and the Ghosts'' begins with a news story about the protagonists' previous exploits having inspired a children's book. The film ends with the same news reporter asking our hero if another book were to be written based on the events of the film, what title he would give it. Cut to the film's title as the credits roll.
* ''Film/{{Hook}}'': Wendy reveals that everyone in the real world knows about Peter Pan because James Barrie wrote a book based on Wendy's stories about him.
* ''Film/TheHardWay'' is an example of the "produce a movie about the events of the movie", with actor Nick Lang starring a film called "The Good, The Badge and The Ugly", in which he drops a ThisIsReality speech told to him by CowboyCop Moss. Moss complains that Lang ''stole'' the speech from him as he sees it.
* Another "make a film" example: a RunningGag throughout the movie ''Film/GetShorty'' is Chilli Palmer working on a pitch for a gangster film which gives off some of the backstory for his reason to be in L.A. The very last scene is the filming of the movie of the events of the film. The aftermath of said filming (the InUniverse movie was good enough to merit a sequel, but the reception of it was bad enough (many people crying out {{Sequelitis}}) that Chili got fed up with filmmaking) is mentioned on the first act of the ''actual'' sequel ''Film/BeCool''.
* At the end of ''Film/JohnCarter'', the titular character tells his nephew Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs to do something with his life, like travel or write a book. The implication is that the ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' books are the result.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'' might be an example of this. Among Lucas' unrealized (but still possibly canon) ideas was to have R2 record the events of the films, then relay them in the distant future to "the Keeper of the Whills".
* ''Film/TheGreatGatsby2013'' ends with Nick writing the story down and sending it to a publisher.
* ''Film/TheCaseForChrist'': At the end of the movie, Lee Strobel's wife Leslie suggests that Lee write a book documenting the research he has done throughout the film.
* ''Film/{{Logan}}'' has Wolverine state that "maybe a third" of the material presented in the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics actually happened, and not in the way that they say it did. It's implied that this applies to the LooseCanon of the other films, as well.
* In ''Film/ThereGoesMyBaby'', at the end of the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue the adult [[spoiler: Mary Beth]] reveals that she had written a book about the movie's plot and [[{{Dedication}} dedicated the book to her best friends]].
* Revealed at the end of the Hallmark holiday movie ''Film/NovemberChristmas'' by the protagonist.
* ''Film/MaybeBaby'' starts revolving around this premise midway through, where Sam Bell starts writing about his wife Lucy's and his conception difficulties as a screenplay.
* ''Film/TheLonelyGuy'': Larry, the titular "lonely guy", is an aspiring author who is trying (and failing) to write a romance novel. Eventually he gives up on that and writes ''A Guide for the Lonely Guy'' instead, based on his experience of the single life over the course of the movie. Oddly, this is well before the movie ends.
* At the end of ''Film/RingOfBrightWater'', Gavin Maxwell decides to write a book about his experiences with the otters. Justified since it's BasedOnATrueStory, and he did.
* ''Film/TheUnbearableWeightOfMassiveTalent'' has Creator/NicolasCage agree at roughly the start of Act II to help aspiring screenwriter Javi Gutierrez write a script for Nick's next movie, which Javi decides to revolve around their budding friendship.

** You can actually see the book in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', where the ghost Neville can be observed reading a novel entitled "Mario Story", the Japanese name for ''Paper Mario''.

* 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?"

* The conclusion to "Mr. Eastwood's Adventure" in ''The Listerdale Mystery'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The protagonist turns his day's adventure into a new mystery story, breaking the writers' block that had started the story.

* [[SchoolNewspaperNewsHound Sayuri Ibe]] in ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'' attempts {{invok|ed}}ing this when the incident [[spoiler:regarding Ao's impending move out of town]] is resolved by [[spoiler: Ao and Mira entering InnocentCohabitation]], since she is one of the people invited to the Earth Sciences Club to brainstorm this issue. Upon hearing the resolution in Episode 9 / Chapter 28, she tells Ao and Mira the entire story "sounds like it comes straight out of a soap drama" and would like to write it in the school newspaper, but they run away before Sayuri has the chance to interview them deeper.

** The idea of writing down the various adventures of the characters is referenced (and [[TitleDrop title-dropped]]) by Bangladesh DuPree.

* One of the alternate Season 5 endings to ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' has Caboose selling his life story to [[{{Creator/Bungie}} a company in Redmond, Washington]] who made a [[{{Franchise/Halo}} popular video game series]] out of it.

* At the end of the ''WebVideo/{{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, [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs "Wouldn't that be boring?"]]
* In ''[[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticTheTommyWiseauShow The Tommy Wiseau Show]]'', WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic ends his phone call to Wiseau with, "I don't know [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs what you're on,]] but I'm totally gonna make a sketch [[TakeThat mocking the fuck out of you guys."]]