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->''"Couldn't think of any lyrics!''

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* Music/{{Eminem}}'s song "Just Lose It" has a section that goes "I don't have any lines that go here".

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* In ''BreakfastOfChampions'', KurtVonnegut's narration frequently goes off to explain what he was going through when he was writing it.

* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': "This is my fourth sentence. This is my fifth sentence. This is my second paragraph..."
** Jason calls his essay "a running first-person account of the process of writing a nine-hundred-word essay."

* An academic journal of psychology once published a scholarly study entitled [[http://www.ericpazdziora.com/writing/stuff-nonsense/best-paper-ever/ "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of Writers' Block"]]. Peer reviewers commended the author for showing his results in great detail while being admirably concise. Of course, [[spoiler:everything except the title is blank.]]

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-->''"Couldn't think of any lyrics!''
-->''No, I never wrote the lyrics.''
-->''So I'll just sing any old lyrics.''
-->''That come to mind, child."''
-->--This Song Is Just Six Words Long, Music/WeirdAlYankovic

!! '''Examples''':

* ''FoxTrot'': "This is my fourth sentence. This is my fifth sentence. This is my second paragraph..."
** Jason calls his essay "a running first-person account of the process of writing a nine-hundred-word essay."
* [[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Writer%27s_block Uncyclopedia's article on writer's block]].

* This is how ''[[FictionalDocument Under The Hood]]'' begins in ''{{Watchmen}}''.
* In the song "Boat Drinks" Jimmy Buffett sang, "I should be leaving this climate/I've got a verse but can't rhyme it."
* "[[http://consc.net/misc/moser.html This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself]]".
* In ''BreakfastOfChampions'', KurtVonnegut's narration frequently goes off to explain what he was going through when he was writing it.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'': Hobbes ended up writing this story for Calvin after he tried time traveling two hours into the future to retrieve his completed story, only to find it hadn't been written yet. Unfortunately for Calvin, the class loves it, but it makes him look like a laughingstock.

* Belgian novelist Herman Brusselmans uses this trope on occasion, often as an introduction. The first sentence of ''De kus in de nacht'' (''The kiss in the night'') is as follows: "''As usual I have nothing to say and I will do so [[{{Doorstopper}} for about 600 to 650 pages]], we'll see.''"

* Here's another: [[http://www.sfwa.org/archive/writing/block.htm]].
** For the record, that is an "incomplete" article on writer's block [[spoiler: with a footnote which details (with references) the many reasons why the paper is unfinished.]]
** Also [[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Writer%27s_block this]].

-->--This Song Is Just Six Words Long, WeirdAlYankovic

** Jason calls his essay "a running first-person account of the process of writing a nine-hundred-word essay."

* ''WeirdAlYankovic'''s song "This Song Is Just Six Words Long" is about this.

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See WritersBlock.

* [[FoxTrot "This is my fourth sentence. This is my fifth sentence. This is my second paragraph..."]]
** Jason calls his essay "a running first-person account of the process of writing a nine-hundred-page essay."

* [[CalvinAndHobbes Hobbes ended up writing]] this story for Calvin after he tried time traveling two hours into the future to retrieve his completed story, only to find it hadn't been written yet. Unfortunately for Calvin, the class loves it, but it makes him look like a laughingstock.

* Belgian writer Herman Brusselmans uses this trope on occasion, often as an introduction. The first sentence of ''De kus in de nacht'' (''The kiss in the night'') is as follows: "As usual I have nothing to say and I will do so in about 600 to 650 pages, we'll see."

-->''"Couldn't think of any lyrics!"''
-->''"No, I never wrote the lyrics."''
-->''"So I'll just sing any old lyrics."''
-->''"That come to mind, child."''

* [[CalvinAndHobbes Hobbes ended up writing]] this story for Calvin after he tried going two hours in the future to retrieve his completed story, only to find it hadn't been written yet. Unfortunately for Calvin, the class loves it, but it makes him look like a laughingstock.

* {{Adaptation}} is this in movie-form -- it's a film telling the story of adapting a book into the screenplay of what eventually becomes the film you're watching.

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When someone writes humorous articles, they occasionally reach an inspirational dead end. Sometimes, to deal with this, they write an article about how they can't think of anything to write.

* TruthInTelevision - one of this troper's friends described an essay her boyfriend had to write. Specifically, the inclusion of an outline, which the teacher declared had to be a sentence-by-sentence rundown of what was in the essay. Evidently hiring guidelines are getting really lax if this guy was allowed to become a teacher.