Basic Trope: Someone writes a book or other work based on a crime that they committed.
- Straight: Alice kills Bob, and then writes a book about it.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice is both an author and a criminal, and she writes a story about every crime she's ever committed.
- Alice writes a very accurate, detailed account about how she killed Bob (including using Bob's real name), and publishes it as a fictional story.
- Downplayed: Alice writes a story about someone who commits a misdemeanor, such as vandalism or shoplifting, after previously committing these misdemeanors.
- Justified:
- Alice is gloating about the fact that she killed Bob.
- Alice regrets killing Bob, and she's writing the story to vent.
- Alice tends to write books based on her experiences.
- Alice is trying to invoke Criminal Mind Games.
- Inverted:
- Alice does a heroic act — such as rescuing Bob — and writes a story about it.
- Alice gets inspiration for a crime from a fictional work.
- Subverted: Alice is initially suspected of killing Bob, but the fact that she recently wrote a book about someone being murdered is simply a coincidence.
- Double Subverted: ...Or that's her alibi, at least.
- Parodied: Alice pokes the poodle and proceeds to write a story about it while gloating about how evil she is.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice never commits crimes, or writes any stories based on them.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why do fictional murderers write a story about the murder they just committed? Are they trying to get caught?"
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