History Main / MostWritersAreWriters

* Sydney in ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'' is an academic writer and there have been other minor characters like Deidre and Anjlai who write but main character and semi-AuthorAvatar Mo has creator Alison Bechdel's bibliophile tendencies instead of being a writer herself.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is itself the FramingDevice variant of this. Which is why so many other fantasy writers/stories do it. [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]] claimed to be the translator of a book originally written by Frodo (and also Frodo's original manuscript was lost, and Tolkien was actually translating a work copied by an anonymous human). Slightly averted in that Tolkien wasn't a professional writer (he was a professor of Philology, or as we would say in America, Historical Linguistics). But since Tolkien is primarily known as a writer (despite having researched and edited a section of the Oxford English Dictionary and revolutionized his professional field), it seems fair to list this here. He probably invoked it because he realized he wasn't the world's best writer (he wasn't) and because he was trying to make a mythology (which he pretty much succeeded in doing, more or less). Frodo can be seen writing the book at the beginning of the movie, and then hands it to Sam in the last scene before getting on the ship to Valinor. In-universe, Frodo is of course continuing a family tradition: with Bilbo Baggins having authored ''Literature/TheHobbit''. Bilbo writing his book is actually the reason why Frodo goes on his adventures to begin with: because Bilbo decides to skip the second part of his birthday party in order to take his finished book to Rivendell (it was Lord Elrond who originally requested the book). When he does so, he leaves the Ring behind: Gandalf then seizes the moment to convince Frodo to undertake the journey to destroy the Ring.

** Also, in [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E13FarBeyondTheStars "Far Beyond the Stars"]], Sisko experiences some type of vision or hallucination of an alternate reality in which he is a writer for a science fiction magazine in the 1950s. Many of the other major characters are also writers or otherwise affiliated with the magazine. Rather ironically, one of the main characters whose alter ego is ''not'' a writer is...Jake Sisko, the writer. (Likely this is because it was important to the story that "Benny Russell" be the only African-American on staff.)

* The ''Literature/NikkiHeat'' books (a {{Defictionalization}} of the ShowWithinAShow books from ''Series/{{Castle}}'') feature deuteragonist and AuthorAvatar Jameson Rook, who's a journalist rather than a novelist, but otherwise is a clear SelfInsert of Richard Castle.

* The protagonist of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' writes mystery novels for a living, and because of his [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections connections]], he gets to spend a lot of time with the police, getting inspiration while offering his own professional insight. And if that wasn't enough, he writes about a [[AuthorAvatar writer]] who follows the NYPD around.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is itself the FramingDevice variant of this. Which is why so many other fantasy writers/stories do it. Tolkien claimed to be the translator of a book originally written by Frodo (and also Frodo's original manuscript was lost, and Tolkien was actually translating a work copied by an anonymous human). Slightly averted in that Tolkien wasn't a professional writer (he was a professor of Philology, or as we would say in America, Historical Linguistics). But since Tolkien is primarily known as a writer (despite having researched and edited a section of the Oxford English Dictionary and revolutionized his professional field), it seems fair to list this here. He probably invoked it because he realized he wasn't the world's best writer (he wasn't) and because he was trying to make a mythology (which he pretty much succeeded in doing, more or less). Frodo can be seen writing the book at the beginning of the movie, and then hands it to Sam in the last scene before getting on the ship to Valinor. In-universe, Frodo is of course continuing a family tradition: with Bilbo Baggins having authored ''Literature/TheHobbit''. Bilbo writing his book is actually the reason why Frodo goes on his adventures to begin with: because Bilbo decides to skip the second part of his birthday party in order to take his finished book to Rivendell (it was Lord Elrond who originally requested the book). When he does so, he leaves the Ring behind: Gandalf then seizes the moment to convince Frodo to undertake the journey to destroy the Ring.

** Because Ellery Queen is BigInJapan, many popular Japanese writers have done the same pen name-protagonist connection, inluding Reito Nikaidou, Rintarou Norizuki, and Alice Arisugawa, who goes a step further by writing *two* series featuring writers named Alice Arisugawa, who are also the authors of each others' MutuallyFictional series, thus making them examples InUniverse as well.