Line #158 Main/MuseAbuse


1	->''"You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their own young."''
2	-->-- '''Philip Marlowe''', ''Series/TheSingingDetective''
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4	Muse Abuse occurs when artists exploit their real life and the people in it for the sake of their art, often to the serious detriment of the people around them and their relationships to other people in general. Related to TheMuse, but more general—it's not just how the artist treats a particular other or others but can spread throughout their entire life. Also, if really unlucky, they get alienated from themselves and their own experiences this way (see the example from Creator/NeilGaiman in the "Quotes" section).
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6	May or may not involve the serious breaking of confidences and trust, and always involves being at some emotional distance from RealLife, consciously or obliviously.
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8	Generally Muse Abuse works as an inversion of the PygmalionPlot in relation to people around the artist: RealLife gets turned into art, not the other way round, and it does not end happily, primarily because the artist, in the Muse Abuse case, relates better to the statue than the live version of the Galatea, whom they may neglect or actively ill-treat. (Not that the PygmalionPlot always ends happily either, of course.)
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10	The artist does not have to be any good at their art for this trope to apply, mind you: Muse Abuse is compatible with a lack of talent on the part of the person who sacrifices their real life and the people in it, as well as (potentially) their personal growth, for the sake of their art. (Obviously, people tend not to be any more mollified at discovering they've been exploited by the merely GiftedlyBad, or for the sake of a work that's pure garbage.)
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12	'''The trope accordingly tends to come in two main types:'''
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14	'''A) The (wannabe) artist is resorting to Muse Abuse due to lack of imagination and actual talent.''' For bonus points, the artist will also get frustrated and stuck if the RealLife people and situations they are exploiting fail to develop as hoped or take different directions than they had hoped.
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16	'''B) The artist is genuinely talented, but just for that reason, compelled to treat everything and everyone, often themselves included, as raw material for their art.''' Quite often, there will be some suggestion that this comes with the territory and is necessary for the person to pursue their art so there may be a side of BlessedWithSuck or CursedWithAwesome.
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18	Of course, artists in category A often imagine they belong in Category B, and Muse Abuse as TakeThat to TheMuse can occur in either of these categories - great artists are not above holding grudges.
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20	This trope is not uncommon as a self-critical claim on the part of RealLife artists (writers, filmmakers, songwriters, etc.), though it often tends to have a ring of ItsAllAboutMe and {{Wangst}}. By extension, it is also very common, especially on the part of the AuthorAvatar, in fiction, often by the same authors.
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22	Often (for extra irony) a source of TrueArtIsAngsty. May lead the artist (if self-aware) to ShooTheDog, or BreakHisHeartToSaveHim, at least if they [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy want them to have a chance at a good life]]. Sometimes, of course, the would-be love object spots them coming, put off by the potential for Muse Abuse, or just plain not interested. Or the artist, if unlucky in love, may turn to Muse Abuse of the unresponsive loved one, often with more or less subtle {{Take That}}s and, not least, the implication that the "art" version of the loved one will be what people remember.
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24	For obvious reasons, this trope, in general, has the potential to overlap with WritersSuck. And, of course, some genres (blogging, confessional literature, the RomanAClef, satire, and, of course, RealPersonSlash) have this basically built in.
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26	Compare HerCodeNameWasMarySue, {{Tuckerization}}, and TheSvengali for a [[{{Mentors}} mentor]] version. Compare/contrast with HandPuppetMockery. Contrast ForcedCreativity.
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28	Has nothing to do with [[{{Music/Muse}} the band]].
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30	!! Examples
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43	* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': A few [[AssholeVictim asshole victims]] throughout the series have behaved this way.
44	** In ''Sato's Ring Case'', a mystery novelist with OCD is shown to regularly abuse those around him due to his obsession with his work. He's eventually poisoned in order to avenge the death of his previous assistant, who was believed to have committed suicide but who actually [[spoiler:was killed by the author while using him as a guinea pig for a murder plan for a story, something the author did regularly.]]
45	** The victim of the ''Detective Play Director Murder Case'' is, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the director of a detective play]] who [[spoiler:pressured the writer to have an affair with an actress because it would make him a better writer. When said writer killed the actress after she [[BlackmailBackfire threatened to expose their affair if he didn't divorce his wife]], the director found out - and was ecstatic to have a chance to force a real murderer to write a murder mystery play for him. This caused the writer to realize that the director would never stop exploiting him for the sake of art, so he killed the director using the same [[LockedRoomMurder locked room trick]] he'd used when he killed the actress.]]
46	** The ''Triplet Murder Case'' originally didn't feature this trope, but [[DubInducedPlotlineChange the anime's dub]] introduced it by changing the motive for the culprit to [[SelfMadeOrphan kill his own father]] from "he was using his business connections to sabotage my career so I'd have no choice but to take over the family business" to "I killed him for inspiration".
47	* ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'': [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Singer Aya Asia killed off her best friends because her being happy prevented her from connecting to the loneliness that allowed her to sing so well. Unlike most of the other killers in the series, her killing intent never "possessed her" turning her into a monster. She was a human being who calmly chose to kill the people who loved her and whom she loved back.
48	* ''Manga/{{Otomen}}'': Juta Tachibana uses gender-flipped versions of his friends Asuka and Ryo as characters in his manga and tends to fret over how the real Asuka and Ryo's relationship isn't progressing, which is holding back his manga characters' relationship. To his credit, with time he grows to feel very guilty about it.
49	* ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'': In the episode "Gossip", a woman finds herself unable to keep up with the local crowd of GossipyHens and their stories of Shonen Bat/Lil' Slugger. She comes home at the end of the episode to find Shonen Bat has attacked her husband. [[spoiler:Rather than get help, she interrogates him for details.]]
50	* Lemon from ''Anime/WaitingInTheSummer'' is this. Seriously, she films almost every development in the series, to the point you wonder when did she get there.
51	* Rohan Kishibe, a mangaka from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', is dedicated to his fans, and wants very badly to provide them with interesting material. To this end, he uses his stand, Heaven's Door, to turn large portions of interesting people [[BodyHorror into paper]], on which is written their life stories. He then uses their experiences as raw material for his manga, occasionally to the point of ripping pages out of them entirely, [[PoweredByAForsakenChild leaving his victims anemic and wasting away]]. He [[HeelFaceTurn stops doing that]] after getting a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Josuke, though.
52	* ''Manga/KillerKiller'': The first culprit is a mangaka who illustrates a true-crime serial about the events of [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Hope's Peak Academy's "Killing School Life"]]. In order to get the injuries and murders right, he set up a torture room to recreate the deaths with scores of victims.
53	* ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' plays this trope for laughs. Nozaki blatantly bases his manga's characters and relationships on the people around him, and often undertakes hilarious situations in the interest of "research," with the characters themselves being none the wiser.
54	* In ''Manga/LePortraitDePetiteCossette'', the titular portrait was painted by the artist Marcello Orlando of his very young fiancé Cosette. It's eventually revealed that in order to preserve her youth and beauty, [[spoiler:he murdered her]].
55	* ''Manga/ScienceFellInLoveSoITriedToProveIt'': [[AuthorAvatar Arika Yamamoto]] is a mangaka who decides to write a romance manga about Himuro and Yukimura, manipulating events according to RuleOfDrama. For example, when Himuro is about to give Yukimura a present, [[spoiler:Arika swaps it with a broken one so that it's more dramatic when she gives him the real gift and they make up]].
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59	* ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'': In the final arc of [[Creator/GrantMorrison Grant Morrison's]] run on the series, Morrison talks about a pet cat who recently died, and how even in mourning, he realized how well it would illustrate his point for the series.
60	* ''ComicBook/TheEternalSmile'': In ''Gran'pa Greenbax and the Eternal Smile'', the eponymous character learns that he is actually the star of a reality TV show (a thinly-veiled ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' parody), and was once a simple frog who, like all the other 'characters,' was enhanced with a personality chip. The creator of the chip and show, [[MrAltDisney Elias McFadden]], explains that Greenbax's personality is based on his own, and we see that at least three others, Greenbax's twin granddaughters and put-upon assistant Filbert, were likely based on people working on the show ([=McFadden=]'s (adult) twin nieces and a put-upon employee named Norbert).
61	* ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'':
62	** Ibriel is either an oblivious version or a very, very deluded one.
63	** Meleos deals rather better with his MagnumOpus, the Basanos, as art than as the living, plotting, power-seeking creature it becomes. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the title character.
64	* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': Amy tells Tulip about her failed relationship with an author who mined their pillow talk for information to use in creating his female characters. (His book also sucked, according to her, but that did not prevent it from becoming a bestseller.)
65	-->"Never date writers, honey. WritersSuck."
66	* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'':
67	** Bette the diner waitress in "24 Hours" is a wannabe writer who views all her regular customers as grist for her novel. She has quite a cynical approach to worming her way into their confidences to get more material and no shame about distorting their fictional counterparts to suit her purposes.
68	** Both of the artists in "Calliope", though this is more literal as they imprisoned and ([[RapeAsDrama sexually]]) abused the eponymous Greek muse.
69	** Muse Abuse is also a theme in some of Creator/NeilGaiman's non-graphic fiction works, and he has also spoken about the RealLife version of this. Specifically (from ''The Sandman Companion''):
70	--->''"As for my take on {{Shakespeare\|InFiction}}, I'm basing a lot of it on what I personally find scary about being a storyteller. When something terrible is happening, 99 percent of you is feeling terrible, but 1 percent is standing off to the side -- like a little cartoon devil on our shoulder -- and saying, "I can use this. Let's see, I'm so upset that I'm actually crying. Are my eyes just tearing, or are they stinging? Yes, they're stinging, and I can feel the tears rolling down my cheeks. How do they feel? Hot. Good, what else?" That's the kind of disconnectedness I wanted to explore."''
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74	* ''Film/DeconstructingHarry'': One character is a writer who has ruined countless relationships by doing this. Notably, he fictionalized his cheating on his wife with her sister; the film begins with the fictional recreation of the incident, then the real woman coming to his apartment to shoot him for publishing it.
75	* In ''Film/AHauntingInVenice'', Poirot is not appreciative of Ariadne using his exploits as inspiration for her novels. [[spoiler:He's even less pleased once he finds out that Ariadne was in cahoots with Vitale and Reynolds to deliberately present him with an unsolvable case to provide fodder for her next novel.]]
76	* ''Film/HerAlibi'': The author main character writes books about an embellished version of himself, and repeatedly narrates events as they happen at the same time, but embellishes everything about himself. Also, when his wife left him for a book critic, he wrote a book called ''Death of a Critic''.
77	* ''Film/HowToMurderYourWife'': The main character is a comic strip artist who "never has a character do anything he wouldn't do himself." When he marries, his character marries, and his comic strip shifts from a superspy adventure to a situation comedy drawn from his own life. Sick of the drivel he's writing, he decides the comic strip character will murder his comic strip wife -- and, of course, he has to at least simulate doing the same himself. His wife is less than pleased when she regains consciousness and realizes what he's done.
78	* ''Film/MoulinRouge'': Christian's Muse Abuse almost leads to the destruction of his and Satine's relationship. Because the musical he is writing is so obviously based on current events, it leads the Duke to realize that they are having an affair and intervene.
79	* ''Film/MusicAndLyrics'': Sophie is a victim of a particularly cruel version of this, courtesy of the English Lit professor who had an affair with her without telling her he was engaged and then, when it went sour, proceeded to write a novel painting her as a talentless [[GoldDigger gold-digging]] whore who seduced an [[WoundedGazelleGambit innocent]] writer [[AuthorAvatar not a million miles away from himself]], ruining his life in the process. The book itself would be bad enough, but the fact that it became a ''New York Times'' bestseller and catapulted him to fame and wealth as a literary genius completely destroyed Sophie's confidence in herself and her ability to write. And then, to make matters worse, she learns they're making a movie of it as well. [[spoiler:LaserGuidedKarma gets him in the end when the movie -- which he wrote -- bombs, ruining his reputation while she goes on to success as a songwriter.]]
80	* Gil, the [[MostWritersAreWriters writer protagonist]] of ''Film/MidnightInParis'', unconsciously wrote himself and people he knows into his novel. The effect is an inversion of the norm: his [[Creator/ErnestHemingway beta-reader]] thinks it's unrealistic that the protagonist doesn't realise his fiance is having an affair with the [[KnowNothingKnowItAll pedantic pseudo-intellectual professor]].
81	-->'''Gil:''' ...it's called denial.
82	* Taken to extremes in ''Film/CabinByTheLake'', which centers around a horror movie writer who moonlights as a misogynistic SerialKiller. He kidnaps young women to keep them captive in a featureless room he built into his house, then drowns them in the nearby lake and props them up in an underground graveyard. All throughout he's asking them questions about how they feel about their predicament to get more inspiration for the SlasherMovie he's writing.
83	* Dewey Cox and his first wife in ''Film/WalkHard'' were almost certainly doomed to heartbreak for other reasons, but it certainly did drive her nuts when she could see him working parts of their arguments into song lyrics ''while they were still arguing''. He also wrote a ballad based on their relationship which, while it ostensibly paid lip service to her as "the perfect wife," also portrayed him as being far more sympathetic and contrite for his failings than he actually was, painting her by implication as a harsh, unforgiving bitch.
84	* ''Film/YvesSaintLaurent'': Early in the film, a LoveTriangle develops between Yves, his lover Pierre, and his muse Victoire. Yves and Pierre are both intensely jealous of Victoire (Yves because Pierre has sex with her, Pierre because Yves finds artistic inspiration in her). Both men treat her badly, and she leaves.
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88	* Best works played (and indeed has been played as a sketch on German TV). Anyway. The famous composer to his charlady: "Please! Don't go! You can't quit! You are my muse!" "Your muse, [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Mr. Beethoven?]] This is...ridiculous! Ha Ha Ha Haaaa!"
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92	* ''Literature/AudreyWait'': The story is about a girl whose ex-boyfriend becomes famous for writing a song about her dumping him.
93	* ''Dear Mrs. Ryan, You're Ruining My Life'' is about a kid whose mother takes moments from his life and publishes them in super-popular children's books, and his attempts to get her to focus on anything but writing by setting her up with the principal.
94	* ''Literature/TheFavouriteGame'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]], complete with an in-universe CreatorBreakdown when the lead character realizes what he's done to his muse.
95	* ''Literature/{{Haunted\|2005}}'', by Creator/ChuckPalahniuk: The story is about a creative writing retreat wherein, instead of trying to come up with story ideas, the participants opt to torture each other so they can write a book... about their harrowing experience on the writers' retreat.
96	* ''Literature/HighFidelity'', by Creator/NickHornby: The lead character and his record store colleagues crush on a woman singer-songwriter, discussing the hope that maybe if one of them got together with her, she'd write a song based on it.
97	* ''Literature/TheJaneAustenBookClub'': Allegra dumps Corinne after learning that not only did Corinne use the secrets Allegra told her during intimate moments as the basis for her latest stories, but she didn't even write them well enough to get published.
98	* ''Literature/JulietNaked'' by Creator/NickHornby: The idea of TheMuse is subverted, with the character getting really sick of the fanboys that hang around her house wanting to see the woman that inspired their favourite album of break-up songs.
99	** [[spoiler:It's also revealed that Tucker had already moved on from his broken heart and no longer had any feelings for Julie by the time the album was released, and now regards both the album and their affair as part of the same OldShame, mostly because he had to feign still having a broken heart while he promoted it, mostly because said pretence led to him abandoning his girlfriend and his first child -- leading him to avoid the music business for twenty years. Annie eventually points out that the album is practically the only aspect of the situation he shouldn't be ashamed of.]]
100	* ''Literature/MyNameIsAsherLev'', by Creator/ChaimPotok: [[spoiler:"Asher Lev paints good pictures and hurts the people he loves. Then be a great painter, Asher Lev; that will be the only justification for all the pain you will cause. But as a great painter, I will cause pain again if I must. Then become a greater painter. But I will cause pain again. Then become a still greater painter. Master of the Universe, will I live this way all the rest of my life?"]]
101	* ''Nobody's Perfect'', an early novel by Creator/JacquelineWilson, was based around a teenage girl who writes a fictionalised account of her search for her DisappearedDad who walked out on the family years ago. She doesn't shy away from describing her displeasure with the real-life figures her characters are based on.
102	* In ''Literature/November9'', Fallon becomes Ben's muse, with him being inspired to write a romance novel based upon their relationship, with the main heroine being based directly on Fallon. However, some of his treatment of her is questionable, such as pressuring her to show him her breasts (one of which is deformed from scars) and pressing her for details about the fire that nearly killed her and her feelings around this so that his novel will be more authentic, although it's implied and later stated outright that Ben is less concerned with the novel than he is about getting to know Fallon better. When Fallon reads Ben's manuscript, she's unsettled when she finds out [[spoiler:the character based on Ben set the fire that injured the character based on her]], thinking that it's a rather ghoulish and overly personal twist. [[spoiler:It then gets worse when she realises that it's not just a made-up twist, but that it ''[[AwfulTruth actually happened]]'', with Ben never once letting on to Fallon he knew the truth yet writing it all down in a book he intends to publish. Fallon is so repulsed she breaks off her relationship with Ben permanently...or at least until the following year]].
103	* "Literature/TheOvalPortrait", by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe: An artist becomes obsessed with painting a perfect portrait of his new wife and fails to notice that her health is failing while she models for him. When he finishes the painting, he ecstatically declares it to be "life itself" then turns to look at his wife eager to share his triumph [[spoiler:only to see that she died while he was finishing the portrait.]]
104	* ''Literature/PortraitsOfHisChildren'' by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin: The main character takes this to its absolute worst level, as explained in TheReveal. [[spoiler:His daughter was brutally raped, and the rapist was never caught. When the main character found her, the phrase he used to comfort her was "Show me where it hurts," referring both to her physical and psychological trauma. A few months later, he published and made a significant amount of money off of, a thriller called ''Show Me Where It Hurts'', a fictional version of the rape story in which that line was reassigned to the rapist. The main character is utterly stunned when his daughter shows up in a rage, calling him a rapist because he'd "raped" her story for profit.]]
105	* ''Literature/TheSacrifice'', by Creator/JulieSteven: An author believes his wife's health is connected to his work: as her health fails, he is more inspired and becomes ever more popular. Though he grapples with guilt over her suffering, the narrator notes that he wouldn't change anything if given the chance, ultimately too addicted to being critically acclaimed to give it up. [[spoiler: Said narrator is actually his wife's muse, plotting to punish him for neglecting his wife despite how fully she devoted herself to him.]]
106	* The ''Cormoran Strike'' novel ''Literature/TheSilkworm'' hinges on this as a motive for murder, as the soon-to-be-published manuscript of a celebrated author's latest is full of grotesque and deliberately offensive TakeThat depictions of many important people in his life, making virtually everyone who's seen it an obvious suspect when he's found dead in a way that clearly reflects an episode in the book. [[spoiler: And then it's {{Subverted}} by the twist that the murdered author didn't write the manuscript everyone else has seen at all; his murderer, who is also his editor and a skilled [[{{Pastiche}} literary imitator]], spent time forging it with her plan to kill him in mind while he was writing the original, then hid his version before anyone other than herself had laid eyes on it.]]
107	* ''Literature/SmallWorld'', by David Lodge: Discussed when two writers sleep together only after promising each other they wouldn't use the encounter as material in their writing.
108	* ''The Chimney-Sweeper's Boy'', by Ruth Rendell: Novelist Gerald Candless, a PosthumousCharacter for most of the book, has spent his career plundering his private life for his fiction, much to the detriment of his marriage. As it turns out, his official biography is not what you would call accurate.
109	* Franchise/SherlockHolmes rather petulantly implies Watson has done this to him in "The Copper Beeches" by twisting and romanticizing the incidents into undignified adventure stories rather than dry scientific pamphlets. Holmes's claim is intended to be ridiculous and not meant to be taken seriously.
110	** From the Sherlock-narrated 'The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier': "I have often had occasion to point out to him how superficial are his own accounts and to accuse him of pandering to popular taste instead of confining himself rigidly to facts and figures. "Try it yourself, Holmes!" he has retorted, and I am compelled to admit that, having taken my pen in my hand, I do begin to realize that the matter must be presented in such a way as may interest the reader."
111	* In the John Updike novel ''Literature/BechIsBack'', the main character is a writer, and his wife complains that he is (unconsciously?) mining her for material.
112	-->'''Bea:''' —I've felt myself in your mind, being di''ges''ted, becoming a ''char''acter.
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116	* ''Series/NineOneOne'' has a version in which the muse is an entire city. An arrogant narcissistic author was suffering writer's block, so he faked his death and released a video saying he hid treasure somewhere in the city and gave a riddle as a clue to its location. As the city descended into chaos from the idiot treasure hunters chasing the fortune, the writer sat back and used the disasters as inspiration for his next book. He ended up HoistByHisOwnPetard when the wife of one of his victims broke into his home and aggravated him into a heart attack, then chose not to call 911.
117	* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': Eric once dated a sweet folk singer girl, but soon broke up with her. Once he did so, she [[MoodSwinger immediately went metal]] and wrote a song about how horrible he was which became a smash hit. She then set up a meeting with him, ostensibly to apologize, but he realized that she just wanted more angst to write songs about. He refused to play that game - instead, he got back together with her, prompting her to start writing SickeninglySweet love songs about him and effectively ending her career.
118	* ''Series/{{Castle\|2009}}'':
119	** The eponymous mystery writer meets Kate Beckett, a sexy female police detective, and decides to write a series of novels about an eerily similar sexy female police detective. He even refers to Beckett, repeatedly, as his Muse. Unlike most examples of this trope, this is rarely considered to be a bad thing in-show, barring Beckett's frustration at the "slutty" nature of her fictional counterpart, Nikki Heat. This is helped by the fact that Castle is TheLancer to Beckett and the main story arc involves her crusade (to catch her mother's killer) rather than his.
120	** The ''Nikki Heat'' novels, [[{{Defictionalization}} which have actually been published]] [[http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Castle/e/B001HD1RBU/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 as real novels,]] play with this trope. Upon reading them with knowledge of the TV series, the characters are clearly drawn from and recognizably the people Castle interacts with (Nikki Heat is clearly drawn from Kate Beckett, Jameson Rook is Castle, Ochoa is Esposito, Raley is Ryan, etc), and many of the situations clearly drawn from the episodes of the series. However, while certain familiar references might pop up, the cases themselves are usually notably different or amalgams of the episodes rather than taken outright, and the characters also display several traits that distinguish them from the originals (Nikki Heat is more sexually active and promiscuous than Beckett, Rook is less perceptive and useful in solving the crimes than Castle, and so forth). Most notably, although Heat and Rook were [[WishFulfillment together by the end of the first book]], the "WillTheyOrWontThey" between Beckett and Castle was [[UnresolvedSexualTension still going strong]] in the fourth season, by which point the third book was already out.
121	* ''Series/{{ER}}'': In one episode, someone leaves a manuscript of a steamy, melodramatic romance novel set in a hospital and featuring very thinly-veiled, exaggerated versions of Cook County General's staff, including a crippled female tyrant (Weaver), a badly-written Latina nurse (Chuny), a tall burly clerk (Jerry), and a charming HandsomeLech (Doug).
122	* One episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' sees a steamy romance novel become a bestseller which turns out to have been based on a story Frasier once told the author, in confidence, about his first time. Frasier's initially furious at not being at least acknowledged but eventually realises he's actually angry about how the relationship ended.
123	* An episode of ''Series/FullHouse'' has Stephanie deliberately manipulating DJ and Steve's relationship in order to get material for a story she's writing; when they find out, they start acting in exactly the opposite way Stephanie expects in order to make her stop.
124	* In an episode of ''Series/HeyDude'', Danny has a newspaper comic strip that is essentially all of his friends' quirks and character flaws PlayedForLaughs. It's a big hit, but he stops writing it when he realizes he's just mocking his friends for profit.
125	* ''Series/HomeAndAway'': The show seems to portray writers as having no original ideas, just copying things that happened to them. One classic example involved Angel entering a writing competition with a romance story and basing it heavily on best friend Sarah's doomed romance with a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk. She thought she'd changed enough details that no one would know what her inspiration was. Everyone did, leading to a big falling out with Sarah.
126	* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': In the ShowWithinAShow ''Tool Time'', Tim Taylor occasionally jokes about his wife, which at least one time has gotten him into trouble with her (getting caught up in one-upping other guys about annoying habits of wives, while still on-air, will do that). But in another episode he says he's figured out a system; he saves all his wife jokes until she's ''already'' mad at him for something.
127	* PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' where some of Q's punishments have him acting out stories and stage productions based on his life, none of which portray him in a positive light.
128	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]", it's only after [[DomesticAbuse Lestat de Lioncourt mangles his boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac into a broken, bloodied heap]] that he's inspired to write his first song in a hundred years. The [[VillainLoveSong end result]] is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PuWm9t5WY8 Come to Me]]" (in RealLife, it was composed by Daniel Hart and sung by Creator/SamReid), which Lestat gives to Louis as both a [[GiftOfSong Valentine Day's present]] and an ApologyGift.
129	* On ''Series/JustShootMe'', Maya dates the host of a children's puppet show and later discovers that he's using his relationship as material for his show, painting her as a greedy harrigan and even suggesting a three-way with Nina.
130	* ''Series/TheLWord'': Jenny's book fictionalises the events of season one of the show. Needless to say, a lot of her friends are not at all happy with their depictions. [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue The movie ramps it up even further.]]
131	* An episode of ''Series/MadAboutYou'' involves Jaime learning an ex-boyfriend has based a comic book supervillain on her and confronting him.
132	* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': In one episode, Dewey takes the home drama that was unfolding around Hal and Lois getting s king-sized bed and turns it into an opera.
133	* At the start of ''Series/TheMiddleMan'', the heroine's struggling artist boyfriend tells her that he doesn't have enough pain and angst in his life to make truly brilliant material, so he needs to obtain "heartbreak" by dumping her. She doesn't take this well.
134	* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': One episode has a psychologist turn one patient's traumatic backstory into a bestselling novel. The patient murders him once he finds out.
135	* ''Series/TheNanny'': Fran meets a rock singer named Tasha, who has become so successful that she's become jaded and developed writer's block and can't write the angst-filled songs she's famous for. She becomes friends with Fran and mines her misery for her songs. Unfortunately, hanging with a rock star improves Fran's mood, and since she's no longer miserable, Tasha dumps her for her friend Val.
136	* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Timothy [=McGee=] writes a series of mystery novels transparently based on his co-workers, under the pseudonym Thom E. Gemcity; he very loosely bases minor characters on people at the coffee shop where he does his writing. This comes back to haunt him when a LoonyFan starts killing these muses in ways that follow the plot of the latest novel.
137	* ''Series/TheSingingDetective'': Discussed; the lead character thinks this comes with the territory if you're a writer. See also the Quotes section.
138	* ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'': Anna dates a playwright and is upset when he more or less transcribes her dinner conversation about her hometown into his play.
139	* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
140	** Notably averted in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E24WorstCaseScenario Worst Case Scenario]]". While searching through the holodeck's database, Paris finds what appears to be a holonovel casting the Maquis members of the crew as mutineers. Despite this portrayal, even the "villains" happily play along. Ultimately, it's revealed it wasn't even meant to be art, but a training simulation made by Tuvok for security personnel when mutiny was considered a real danger before trust with the Maquis provisional crew was established. [[spoiler:''Then'' it turns out that one of their old enemies had rigged it to turn into a DeathTrap for whoever used it.]]
141	** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E18AuthorAuthor Author, Author]]", the EMH makes a holonovel about a supposedly fictional ship stranded in the Delta Quadrant, with an anvilicious theme of hologram discrimination that makes the crew look extremely unflattering, so much so that the EMH has to rework the novel. The episode's main conflict is that the publisher won't allow the EMH to revise it, because holograms don't have rights. (TheFederation decides that while he can't be classified as a person, he can be classified as an artist.)
142	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone2019'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone2019S1E1TheComedian The Comedian]]", a struggling comedian becomes successful when he uses people he knows for material, but discovers it has consequences: [[spoiler:everyone he mines for material ceases to exist]]. At first, he tries to only use this on {{asshole victims}} but gets more carried away the more popular he becomes. [[spoiler:He eventually atones by focusing a set on himself, making himself disappear and undoing everything]].
143	* In ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', when Alex is too lazy and irresponsible to help out Harper stage a street-corner puppet show to raise funds to help pay the rent when they are rooming together in an apartment post-graduation, the two have a falling out, and Harper's puppet show features a lazy, irresponsible character that ''even the little kids watching the show know'' is meant to be Alex. Alex also figures it out easily while watching, and starts her own show, magically shrinking Justin and Zeke to use as her "puppets".
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148	* The Music/BarenakedLadies' song "Running Out of Ink" is about a songwriter who starts writing songs about his friends and their secrets. He gets famous and is alienated by his friends, but has been driven to drink because of it. At the end of the song, he puts all of the songs he wrote in a plastic bag and throws them off a bridge while contemplating jumping himself.
149	* Music/TheBeautifulSouth's "Song for Whoever" is written from the point of view of someone who does this [[MoneyDearBoy for profit]].
150	-->''Oh Shirley, oh Deborah, oh Julie, oh Jane,\
151	I wrote so many songs about you,\
152	I forget your name\
153	(I forget your name)''
154	* Music/PhilCollins was possibly rightly pilloried by ''Series/SpittingImage'' for his tendency to write this sort of stuff every time a marriage broke up. The parody song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S5CiQPyNY8 I'm So Lonely]]" is a skewering send-up of Collins' angst-ridden marriage breakup single "Against All Odds".
155	* Music/LeonardCohen and Music/BobDylan both use this theme (in Cohen's case, also in novels).
156	* Music/{{Drake}}'s habit of calling out his former flames, complete with first names, locations, and voicemail recordings, has started catching up to them (and, increasingly, ''him'') as he becomes a superstar.
157	* Music/{{Eminem}}'s early career involves him insulting his mother, wife/ex-wife, his mother's lawyer (who was suing him in response to him insulting her), the man he assaulted for kissing his wife, Music/MariahCarey and her husband, his school bully, and pretty much everyone else in his life. The fact that he combines real people and events with outrageous, cartoonish embellishments or grossly homophobic insults resulted in him getting hit with plenty of lawsuits, including a famous $10 million suit brought against him by his own mother for making her a comedic villain of his Slim Shady alter-ego's HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood - which resulted in his attacks on her getting extremely specific and personal.
158	* Music/LouReed's infamous ''Music/{{Berlin}}'' album charts the destruction of his marriage and the self-destruction of his then-wife through substance abuse, wife-beating, promiscuity, emotional cruelty and loss of their children to a suicide attempt on her part. [[note]]Real laugh-a-minute stuff.[[/note]]
159	* Music/TearsForFears: Roland Orzabal [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/65jvzr/how-we-wrote-our-first-record-tears-for-fears-revisit-the-hurting has named]] his ChildhoodFriend, fellow bandmate and group co-founder Curt Smith as his lifelong muse. After their debut album, Orzabal grew increasingly tyrannical and egotistical when it came to what he regarded as solely ''his'' (and not ''their'') music. [[note]]Here's his [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ed2le7nXsAE4QYP?format=jpg&name=medium exact quote:]] "But [Smith's] second [solo album], ''Mayfield'', was really good. I thought to myself, 'Why didn't he do this when we were together? I wouldn't have let him?' Well, that's probably true. I did view Tears for Fears very much as my band."[[/note]] This led to Smith being sidelined more and more as time went on, to the point where guest performer Oleta Adams had a bigger presence than he did on the band's third album. Smith was so angered by his greatly reduced role [[note]]here's his [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7zz1vh?start=193 exact quote:]] "If you sing and that's what you love, then you're pissed off when you're not doing it, so it's like, 'I want to be singing.' So yes, we definitely had issues and fights about that. [...] We couldn't really talk to each other without fighting, so who wants to do that?"[[/note]] that he quit in 1991. An infuriated Orzabal then wrote "Fish Out of Water" as TheDissTrack to Smith for leaving him. In Smith's AnswerSong "Sun King", he outright calls the mistreatment he endured from Orzabal abuse.
160	** After they reunited, "[[https://www.pressreader.com/australia/herald-sun-hit/20171206/281590945895449 Smith says]] the pair now realize the tension that drove them apart is what fuels their creativity." Orzabal also [[https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30900411.html adds]] that the conflicts between them are necessary for their partnership.
161	--->I'm a bit of a perfectionist. If you're going to partner with someone like that, you have to be pretty tough. If they're tough, you're going to have arguments. It wouldn't have worked if I'd been with someone less feisty.
162	* Jim White lampshades this trope in action in his song "Christmas Day", which describes a painful meeting between the narrator and an ex-lover:
163	-->''...and I thought, damn, what good fiction I could mold from this terrible pain.''
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167	* The creator of ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' based the Pattersons on her own family, and often used the medium passive-aggressively. For most of its run, she portrayed her husband as an idiotic, lecherous boor and the kids as selfish whiners who only existed to make their mother's life miserable. She frequently claimed events in the strip were based closely on real life... such as Michael and his pals peeking into a female classmate's bedroom while she undressed. The InspirationallyDisadvantaged Shannon was based on a relative. In the strip's final years, after divorcing her second husband, the strip took a turn for WishFulfillment, with the Pattersons almost all becoming {{Purity Sue}}s and falling right into the careers and marriages Elly wanted for them... a none-too-subtle TakeThat at reality and her own children's refusal to do exactly what Mommy wanted.
168	* The real-life [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS Dennis the Menace]] had a rocky relationship with his father, Hank Ketcham, the comic's creator. Hank admitted later that, "These things happen, but this was even worse because [Dennis's] name was used. He was brought in unwillingly and unknowingly, and it confused him."
169	* InUniverse examples from ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'':
170	** Jason often uses his sister in his D&D sessions...as various flavors of hideous monsters.
171	** Paige retaliated by writing a SelfInsertFic with Jason as a troll, eventually tied up and left to be eaten by boars.
172	** Jason and Marcus play "Houses and Humans" with a level 16 boy, level 14 girl, and level 10 boy. When Peter makes a disparaging comment, Jason announces his 16-year-old sticks his tongue into a socket ("Roll percentile die to determine voltage").
173	** Roger (in his trope-naming SelfInsert spy fantasy "His Code Name Was The Fox") gave his James Bond-ish character a fling with a redhead and figured his wife might get jealous, so the Fox gets two blondes in the next chapter.
174	* Les Moore of ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' is another in-universe case. He has built an entire publishing career out of his wife's death. This includes several books, endless book signings, a graphic novel (which was nominated for an Eisner Award), two attempts at a movie, and a charity he runs. His only other known book, about the murder of crossover strip character John Darling, was a flop.
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178	* Several of Creator/HenrikIbsen's plays, especially the late ones, with ''The Master Builder'' and ''When We Dead Awaken'' as standout examples. Sometimes, especially in the latter two cases, TheMuse (typically a much younger girl, at least at the time of the Muse Abuse) [[TheDogBitesBack gets her own back eventually]].
179	* Trigorin and Nina's relationship in Chekhov's ''Theatre/TheSeagull'' is sometimes portrayed this way, with Trigorin's attraction to Nina treated as simply a desire to use her as inspiration for a story. Trigorin also quite openly intends to turn Masha into a character, but Masha feels flattered rather than exploited.
180	* ''Theatre/TheShapeOfThings'', by [[Creator/NeilLabute Neil LaBute]]: This trope is combined with a PygmalionPlot.
181	* Crossing over with Real Life, in the play ''Tru'', Truman Capote reflects on being banished from Manhattan social circles after unflattering caricatures of various socialites appeared in ''Esquire'': "How could they have spent all that time being friends with a writer and then be surprised I was taking notes?"
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185	* ''VideoGame/BioShock'': Rapture has a real problem with this, to the extent that most of Rapture's citizens probably ''wish'' the [[MadArtist mad artists]] would stick to just insensitively using real trauma in a story. Sander Cohen does stuff like covering living people in plaster for sculptures (they can still attack you), writing a nigh-impossible piano piece and forcing a guy to play it on a piano wired with explosives, and makes you kill people and take pictures of them in the name of art. Steinman aspires to be the Picasso of plastic surgery... and he's particularly enamored of Picasso's [[BodyHorror cubist period]]. Artists in Rapture should probably be avoided on general principle.
186	* ''[[VideoGame/GabrielKnight Gabriel Knight 2]]'': The title character's Blake Backlash novels are "loosely" based on local events and people he knows: a manuscript page found in Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within spoils the ending of ''Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers''.
187	* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', this is a big part of Rin's route. [[spoiler:As she prepares for her art exhibit, she refuses to reply to Hisao's LoveConfession, orders him not to visit, and shuts him out entirely. One of the biggest conflicts in this route is Hisao's struggle with Rin's incomprehensibility and Rin's difficulties with expressing her feelings.]]
188	* Invoked in the final chapter of Primrose's story in ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'', when [[spoiler:Simeon]] presents a stage play based in great detail on Primrose's life for the express purpose of mocking her.
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191	[[folder:Webcomics]]
192	* ''Webcomic/DarASuperGirlyTopSecretComicDiary'', by Erika Moen: This trope is covered in [[http://www.darcomic.org/2007/08/06/autobio01/ this comic]].
193	* ''Webcomic/MenageA3'': Yuki goes into a violent fugue state whenever she sees anything that looks even remotely like a penis. while her issues aren't caused entirely by it, we learn her father is a hentai artist specializing in tentacles... ''whose heroine shares his daughter's name''. The father is completely unaware of any negative effect this might have had on her.
194	* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': Zoe lands a spot on a radio talk show - starting out as a comic-relief side-character, she ends up basically taking it over, by regaling the listeners with the outrageous (and completely accurate) stories of her friend's misadventures. Which fails to amuse the rest of the main characters, who are somewhat annoyed that she openly mocks them on the air, with only the flimsiest cover names in place, and ends up basically kicking her out of the house.
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197	[[folder:Western Animation]]
198	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
199	** When Steve wrote a series of children's books with a character based on Roger, Roger was flattered until he found out how the character acts. In a later episode "Mused and Abused", Roger declares Klaus his muse and states that he purposely tortures Klaus to use his sad and crying appearances to make his art.
200	** It's revealed that one of Roger's personas has a series of art pieces depicting Klaus' abject suffering. Offended at first and breaking from Roger's toxic influence to improve his life, Klaus is eventually gaslit by Roger into accepting being a designated ButtMonkey under the belief that his life only has meaning giving inspiration to Roger's art.
201	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': WordOfGod says that Macbeth was friends with Creator/WilliamShakespeare and told him his life story, which Shakespeare then mangled (largely out of necessity since the King of England at the time was a descendant of Duncan) to create his famous play. Macbeth had a sense of humor about it and even played himself in a few productions over the centuries.
202	* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'': Sam makes a game that glorifies himself while adding his friends in the game, accentuating their negative traits and qualities. He ends up reconciling by making more even-handed portrayals of them (and himself).
203	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
204	** When Homer outed himself as muckraking blogger "Mr. X", his friends stopped talking to him since they figured it would all go on the blog.
205	** Bart's "Angry Dad" character was based on Homer's frequent angry outbursts. When Homer decided he didn't want to be an Internet buffoon, he repressed his rage, leading Bart to set up an elaborate booby trap in the backyard for the sake of inspiration. Fortunately for Homer, [[RepressionNeverEndsWell suppressing his rage would have eventually killed him]], and Bart driving him over the edge with the prank saved his life.
206	** When Marge wrote a romance novel called ''The Harpooned Heart'', she wrote in the main character Temperance's husband Captain Mordecai as an abusive, selfish slob like Homer, and her love interest Cyris is an all-around good guy based on Ned Flanders. It's mentioned she accidentally has the characters referred to as "Homer" and "Ned" ''for several pages in a row''. Note that she originally wrote Mordecai as a caring, suave husband until Homer interrupted her writing sessions with yet another display of lazy [[{{Jerkass}} jerkassery]].
207	* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "You Can't Do That On Television, Peter,", Peter becomes the host of a kids' TV show and Lois gets mad at him for ignoring his family to do the show. Peter then introduces a whiny HandPuppet character based on Lois called Saggy Naggy, and it soon becomes clear that he's releasing some pent-up rage when "she" begins ordering Peter to do chores that Lois told him to do earlier in the episode. It gets to the point where Lois gets attacked by a mob of children who believe her to be Saggy Naggy.
208	-->'''Saggy Naggy''': (to Peter) You're gonna help around the house, take out the garbage, and give Stewie his bottle!
209	-->(cut to Stewie on the couch in sunglasses with a cellphone)
210	-->'''Stewie''': [[MediumAwareness Yeah, I heard it... they say my name on TV all the time, calm down, bitch.]]
211	* The frontman for ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'', Corey, pushes his BigSisterBully Trina to extreme emotion OnceAnEpisode so she can provide lyrics for the band. This often means humiliating her in public, especially in front of her crush.
212	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', Jay's mother Eleanor decides to write a children's book called "The Fat Little Pig", which is a thinly-veiled insult to Jay. Problems start to arise when the book becomes popular, and Jay is being ridiculed by the public. When he complains to Eleanor about it, she doesn't believe him. When she finally sees what he's going through for herself, she goes through a HeelRealization and decides to write another book [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun killing off the character.]]
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216	* "Literature/IAlmostSawThisGirlGetKilled" by Creator/DavidSedaris: An essay where Sedaris recounts watching a potentially fatal accident at a fairground and that feeling of horror and fascination you get -- [[HumansAreBastards while mentally rehearsing the story you'll tell people if provided with the right gory ending]]. Another couple of essays reflect how his family feels about using stories about their child and adult selves for material:
217	-->Details were carefully chosen, and the pace built gradually, punctuated by a series of well-timed pauses. "And then... and then...." She reached the inevitable conclusion, and, just as I started to laugh, she put her head against the steering wheel and fell apart. It wasn't the gentle flow of tears you might release when recalling an isolated action or event, but the violent explosion that comes when you realize that all such events are connected, forming an endless chain of guilt and suffering. [[HypocriticalHumor I instinctively reached for the notebook I keep in my pocket]], and she grabbed my hand to stop me. "If you ever," she said, "''ever'' repeat that story, I will never talk to you again." [...] "Oh, come on," I said. "That story's really funny, and it's not like ''you're'' gonna do anything with it!" Your life; your privacy; your bottomless sorrow; it's not like ''you're'' gonna do anything with it. Is this the brother I always was, or the brother I have become?[[note]] Brother. To Creator/AmySedaris? Interesting! [[/note]]
218	* When Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård wrote his seven-volume work "My Struggle", he was accused of this, especially by his former wives and girlfriends, because he wrote of his own life in minute detail, sparing no one.
219	* One Norwegian example occurred in the early sixties, stating that this trope can be taken to destructive extremes. Author Agnar Mykle was forced to stop one of his publications, because his wife's family intervened, taking legal action against him. The impact was so harsh on her (he had tried to use her tragic backstory as a theme in his novel), that she was DrivenToMadness and later DrivenToSuicide.
220	* See also the Creator/NeilGaiman example, above. He also wrote a short story about his grandmother disappearing in supernatural circumstances that were apparently so close to the truth that people who knew the true version got confused as to what really happened.
221	* Creator/HowardStern, according to himself, ruined his first marriage and a large number of his long-time friendships due to his mockery of them on his show.
222	* Creator/AAMilne, in real life, had a difficult relationship with his son Christopher Robin, partly due to this. Supposedly, Christopher Robin as a grownup said his happiest moment at boarding school was when some of the other boys bought him a copy of "Christopher Robin is saying his prayers" on vinyl so he could smash it with a hammer.
223	* The real-life ComicBook/KittyPryde now goes by a different name, as she got ''very tired'' of the Shadowcat fanboys.
224	* The {{documentary}} ''Film/{{Marwencol}}'' is all about this trope. After suffering memory loss after an attack, Mark Hogancamp starts building a 1/6-scale UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era town in his yard and populating it with dolls representing [[AuthorAvatar himself]], his friends, and even his attackers. He rehabilitates his physical wounds by manipulating the small dolls and props — and his mental ones by having the figures act out various battles and stories. When Mark begins documenting his miniature dramas with his camera, his photos are discovered and published by Esopus magazine and even shown in a New York art gallery.
225	* Paul Reiser reports that when fighting with his wife, he would sometimes get a distracted expression on his face, and she would say, "You're thinking of how to use this in ''Series/MadAboutYou,'' aren't you?!"
226	* [[http://dooce.com Heather Armstrong]] talks about how blogging got her fired, ruined her relationships, and pissed off her family on her About page (of course, then it made her rich and famous).
227	* "Mommy-blogging" in general is criticized heavily for this reason, partly out of concern for the children's privacy and dignity when the mothers [[TooMuchInformation share very private moments online]], and partly out of concern for the children's well-being when the mothers become rich and famous off carefully covered-up abuse and neglect. One small-time mommy-blogger with Munchausen-by-proxy actually ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Garnett_Spears murdered her son]]'' to get hits on her blog.
228	* Randy Milholland based the characters of ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' on his own family and friends, and nominal protagonist Davan is [[AuthorAvatar himself from several years ago]]. As time passed, the [[CharacterDevelopment characters developed differently]] but when [[spoiler: Faye, Davan's mother died]], his mother wasn't happy that people seemed relieved that she was all right. He also notes that one of the reasons he doesn't have [[FanPreferredCouple Davan and Pee-Jee]] hook up is because "real Pee-Jee" doesn't like the idea. Conversely, the real versions of Jason and Aubrey aren't married, but they apparently didn't mind hooking up in the comic.
229	* The seventeen main dancers in ''Theatre/AChorusLine'' were largely based on the original cast members who played them; several of them have mentioned in interviews in the years since that they resented how much personal information co-creator Michael Bennett asked them to share so that he could then incorporate those details into the characters.
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