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* ''[[MoulinRouge MoulinRouge!]] uses [[EwanMcGregor Christian]] writing a book as BookEnds for the film's story. Satine even tells him when [[spoiler: she dies]] that he needs to write their story.
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** There's the fact that the narration is in past tense, but some details are given in present tense ('I did X, Y and Z, then went back to my apartment. My apartment is...') which would be consistent with Harry writing about events a short time after they've taken place.
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'''O'Neill''': I've thought about it. But then [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade [[IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou I'd have to shoot anyone that actually read it]].
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* At the end of [[ANightmareOnElmStreet Wes Craven's New Nightmare]] the UltimateEvil has been defeated and [[SealedEvilInACan Resealed away]] now that Wes has finished the screenplay portraying it. Heather Langenkamp and her son read from the screenplay, which depicts the first scenes of the movie.
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* {{Christopher Moore}}'s ''[[BloodsuckingFiends Bite Me: A Love Story]]'' ends with [[spoiler: Tommy]] suggesting he's going to write a book, presumably about the events of the trilogy.
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-->'''Hammond''': You ever think of writing a book about your exploits in the line of duty?\\
'''O'Neill''': I've thought about it. But then [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade I'd have to shoot anyone that actually read it]].\\
-- {{Pilot}} of ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''
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-->'''Hammond''': You ever think of writing a book about your exploits in the line of duty?\\
'''O'Neill''': I've thought about it. But then [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade I'd have to shoot anyone that actually read it]].\\
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* At the end of ''PaperMario'', one NPC says that he's written a book about Mario's quest, entitled ''Paper Mario''. The end of the sequel reveals that a play was made based on that quest, also called ''Paper Mario''.
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* In Stephen Lawhead's ''Song of Albion'', the entire trilogy is a set of books written by the narrator. The final sentence of the third book is the first sentence of the first book:
-->"It all began with the aurochs."
-->"It all began with the aurochs."
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* In the original TombRaider games, Lara has written several books which are treated as eccentric fiction, including "A Tyrannosaurus is Jawing at my Head".
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* The last episode of ''{{Roseanne}}'' reveals that Rosanne wrote the series based on her life - except the [[CanonDiscontuity final season]], which she completely made up after Dan died.
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* The final episode of ''StarTrekEnterprise'' revealed the show (or at least that episode) to be a holodeck program being viewed by Riker and Troi from ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
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* In DoctorWho, Joan Redfern- the love interest of John Smith, a certain humanised-amnesiac Time-Lord, is revealed to have kept John's diary and her memoirs in an attic. Over seventy-five years later, her grand-daughter publishes them as a book...only for a man, [[TimeTravel just like the one from the diary]]], to come to the book signing.
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* The Channel4 {{Teletext}} soap opera ''Park Avenue'' ended with one of the characters announcing that he'd successfully sold a soap opera based on the street to ORACLE. FridgeLogic when you consider that ''Park Avenue'' was full of topical references, and had started four years earlier...
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* Christopher Moore's ''Bite Me: A Love Story'' ends with [[spoiler: Tommy]] suggesting he's going to write a book, presumably about the events of the trilogy.
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* In ''{{Dragonheart}}'', poetry-loving monk Brother Gilbert is trying to write an epic like ''Gilgamesh'', and decides to frame it around the adventures of the protagonist Bowen. Not a book per se, but as the film takes place in a time before novels were common, it otherwise fits.
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* In the Jackie Chan fantasy film ''The Myth'', his character has written a book of [[TitleDrop the same name]] at the end of the movie, and it is dedicated to his [[spoiler: DeadSidekick]].
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* Done in ''Riviera:ThePromisedLand'', by [[spoiler: Rose]], of all people.
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* In-universe, the protagonist of ''RepoMen'' writes ''The Repossession Mambo'', which is the title of the RealLife novel on which the film was based. He does this in the ''middle'' of the movie, and even [[spoiler: kills an attacker with the manual typewriter he'd just finished writing it with.]]
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* Why haven't the Lemony Snicket ''Series of Unfortunate Events'' books been mentioned yet? There's even an "unauthorized autobiography" on "Lemony Snicket".
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* ''Mr. Small'', an entry in Roger Hargreaves' ''Mr. Men'' series, depicts Mr. Small attempting to hold down a variety of jobs. He eventually [[spoiler:meets an author who writes children's books; after hearing Mr. Small describe his adventures, he decides to write a book about them]]. It is explicitly stated that the reader has just read the book in question.
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* In AMidsummerNightsDream, Bottom, thinking the fantastic events of the play were AllJustADream, says that "I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called ‘Bottom’s Dream’, because it hath no bottom;" That makes this trope OlderThanSteam.
