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* Many of the quirkier [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] Radio 4 documentary strands do this, with the narrator explaining the difficulties of production, and sometimes describing (or even recording) arguments with the producer. Often the phrase "this is not the programme I expected to make" is involved.
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* Music/MitchBenn wrote and recorded an entire album in 24 hours for charity. The last song, "Party Animals Need Not Apply" is about how this SelfImposedChallenge isn't fun, and ends with a repeated line about how he needs to [[{{Padding}} pad it out]] to make the time.
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Long"]]
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* Tim Urban opens his Website/{{TED}} Talk "Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator" with a description of his own last-minute writing of the TED Talk as an example of his process.
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I just checked Al's official site. We're both wrong.
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The song is called "(This Song Is Just) Six Words Long", and YES it is the joke that this is SEVEN words.
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The song's official title
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* Music/FiveIronFrenzy briefly dips into this on the second verse of "Superpowers" (which is otherwise about the difficulties of being a touring rock band):
-->Sometimes I have a deadline\\
for writing our songs.\\
Five minutes left to write this one...\\
la, la la, la la, la la la.
-->Sometimes I have a deadline\\
for writing our songs.\\
Five minutes left to write this one...\\
la, la la, la la, la la la.
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* Music/MorrisMinorAndTheMajors' "Another Boring B-Side" (the b-side of "Stutter Rap") details the cynical process of writing a song that most people will only listen to once.
-->It's another boring b-side, another load of tat
-->It has no redeeming features, and we're really proud of that
-->You're listening to the product of considerable neglect
-->But for a lousy one pound eighty, tell me, what did you expect?
-->It's another boring b-side, another load of tat
-->It has no redeeming features, and we're really proud of that
-->You're listening to the product of considerable neglect
-->But for a lousy one pound eighty, tell me, what did you expect?
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* This is the subject matter of [[MacGuffin the manuscript]] in ''Literature/TheCityOfDreamingBooks'', and it's specifically noted that it ''should'' be a ClicheStorm by all rights. Yet, reading it convinces people that it's the greatest piece of literature ever put to the page.
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[[caption-width-right:305:This caption explains how to write a caption...]]
[[caption-width-right:305:This caption explains how to write a caption...]]
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closed? no, it moved somewhere else
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* [[https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Writer%27s_block Uncyclopedia's article on writer's block]].
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When someone is contractually obligated to churn out regular 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.
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When someone is contractually obligated to churn out regular 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.
write. This makes such pieces essentially forms of {{Metafiction}}, since they typically involve the author ''writing about writing''.
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* In the song "Boat Drinks" JimmyBuffett sang, "I should be leaving this climate/I've got a verse but can't rhyme it."
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* The ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' fanfic "[[http://www.ttrarchive.com/missingtheobvious.html Missing the Obvious]]" by Daibhid Ceannaideach, written for a "crystals" challenge on rec.arts.drwho, is a ''Fanfic/ThisTimeRound'' fic in which Daibhid's AuthorAvatar completely fails to write a fanfic about crystals. It opens with a parenthetical comment that he can probably get away with this ''once''.
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* The ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' fanfic "[[http://www.ttrarchive.com/missingtheobvious.html Missing the Obvious]]" by Daibhid Ceannaideach, written for a "crystals" challenge on rec.arts.drwho, is a ''Fanfic/ThisTimeRound'' fic in which Daibhid's AuthorAvatar completely fails to write a fanfic about crystals. It opens with a parenthetical comment that he can probably get away with this ''once''.
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Almost always a form of SelfReferentialHumor. See also WritersBlock.
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Almost always a form of SelfReferentialHumor. See also WritersBlock. SisterTrope to WritersBlockMontage.
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* DaveBarry does this every so often.
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* DaveBarry Creator/DaveBarry does this every so often.
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* ''Music/{{Chicago}}'''s "25 or 6 to 4";
-->''"Waiting for the break of day\\
Searching for something to say..."''
-->''"Waiting for the break of day\\
Searching for something to say..."''
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* ''{{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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* ''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."
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* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': One series of strips has Jason writing "a running first-person account of the process of writing a nine-hundred-word essay" for school, as part of a bet with his friend Marcus to see who can write the longer essay. Jason wins the bet, but his essay gets a poor grade because it's literally nothing but "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."
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*A semi-recurring theme in the contemporary arc of ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' is that Arthur hates "can't-think-of-a-joke jokes", but not as much as he hates failing to update his webcomic. Likewise in the space arc, Tristram thinks writing a song about being unable to write a song is "only funny once".
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*A semi-recurring theme in the contemporary arc of ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' is that Arthur hates "can't-think-of-a-joke jokes", but not as much as he hates failing to update his webcomic. Likewise in the space arc, Tristram thinks writing a song about being unable to write a song is "only funny once".
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StephenFry mentions in the book collection of his articles that every humor writer is allowed one and only one of these.
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* BenFolds' "One Down" is about the fact he's contractually obliged to write 3.6 more songs and he feels conflicted about "turning in a bunch of shit."
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* [[NoDoubt Gwen Stefani]]'s hit "What You Waiting For?" is about Gwen's writer's block during the making of her debut solo abum, ''Love Angel Music Baby'', and addressed to herself.
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* Creator/UmbertoEco had a column in the Italian news magazine ''L'espresso'' and he once wrote an article about how he can't think of anything to write about, but the space needs to be filled, so he's now writing this article about how he can't think of anything.
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* [[NoDoubt Gwen Stefani]]'s hit "What You Waiting For?" is about Gwen's writer's block during the making of her debut solo abum, ''Love Angel Music Baby'', and addressed to herself.
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* ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants''' "Number Three" (third song on their first album) is about burning out after writing only three songs.
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* In "A Story Short" from ''Series/TheStoryteller'', the eponymous storyteller is forced to tell a new story every day. On the last day, due to an outlandish series of events, he doesn't have time to think up a new story, so he tells the story of why he couldn't.
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* In "A Story Short" from ''Series/TheStoryteller'', the eponymous storyteller is [[ScheherezadeGambit forced to tell a new story every day.day]]. On the last day, due to an outlandish series of events, he doesn't have time to think up a new story, so he tells the story of why he couldn't.
