History Main / IShouldWriteABookAboutThis

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** The idea of writing down the various adventures of the characters is referenced (and [[TitleDrop title-dropped]]) by [[PirateGirl Bangladesh]] [[AxCrazy DuPree]].
--> '''Bang:''' I mean, if they ever write this down, they ain't gonna be calling it "''Boy'' Genius".

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* ''Webcomic/TheWordWeary'' is a comic by John Kossler about John Kossler, who's writing a comic. [[http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/09/17-september-2011.html Issue 75]] featured him wondering what he should do for in-comic comic's next update- he finally settled on a joke that was used in [[http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/03/15-march-2011.html issue four.]]

* The book ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' turns out to be Annabelle's English project, thought the events were supposed to have really happened.

* In the finale of Nickolay Rimsky-Korsakov's ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'', Old Grandfather, a storyteller, announces that as soon as he gets home, he'll start turning the opera's events into a story, with some ArtisticLicense involved.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', Elite Four member Shauntal (already an established author) is in the middle of writing a novel about the events of the previous game; when you come to challenge her, she is brainstorming a passage about a trainer who fits N's description and whatever Legendary Pokemon he owns in the current game (either Reshiram or Zekrom) It should be noted, N defeated the Elite Four, including her, in the first game.

* At the close of T.H. White’s ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'', King Arthur on the eve of a great battle asks his page Tom to ride home to Warwickshire and to tell people about the King’s idea, that force should only be used for justice. The boy kneels to kiss the King’s hand before he goes, “his surcoat, with the Malory bearings, looking absurdly new”. It would be Sir Thomas Malory who would write ''Literature/LeMorteDArthur''.

* Some versions of the [[Myth/ArthurianLegend King Arthur mythos]] introduce us to Blaise, Merlin's former tutor. Merlin visits him often to share recent stories from Arthur's court, thus creating the mythos in the first place.

* Chapter 191 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' spin-off series ''We Want to Talk About Kaguya'' has Ishigami giving her the idea for a series where two characters engage in a DuelOfSeduction based on a conversation he had with Shirogane back in Chapter 162 of the main series. She immediately gets to work on something that she titles ''Kaguya-sama Wants to be Confessed To'' and even comments that [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall it's a good enough idea to win the Shogakukan Manga Award]]. This is actually a bit of AscendedFanon, as Karen being the in-universe author of the series had been a popular fan theory ever since the reveal early on that she drew [[RealPersonFic Real-Person Fics]] about Kaguya and Shirogane.

* Mentioned in passing in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3. Following a perilous battle in Cuba, Commander Giles mentions that maybe he will write a book about it.

* In ''[[VideoGame/TheBlackwellSeries Blackwell Convergence]]'', Rosa receives a rejection from Rel Day Books for her manuscript "The Devil and the Deacon" -- presumably an account of the events in ''The Blackwell Legacy''. In ''The Blackwell Deception'', Rosa has a published (but wildly unsuccessful) manuscript called "The Actor and the Artist" -- presumably an account of the events in ''Convergence''.

* One of the alternate Season 5 endings to ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' has Caboose selling his life story to [[{{Creator/Bungie}} a company in Redmond, Washington]] who made a [[{{Franchise/Halo}} popular video game series]] out of it.

* At the end of ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare'', 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.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' has Bilbo's and Frodo's ''The Red Book of Westmarch'', a continuation of Bilbo's ''[[Literature/TheHobbit There and Back Again: A Hobbit's Holiday by Bilbo Baggins]]''.
** With an ending by Samwise, of course.
*** And then found and translated long after by Creator/JRRTolkien, of course.

* In the original ''VideoGame/TombRaider'' games, Lara has written several books which are treated as eccentric fiction, including "A Tyrannosaurus is Jawing at my Head".

A more recent variation more common in film and television is to end with a film or television series being produced about the events. Many times the ending itself will switch from "reality" to the film under production before the camera pulls back to [[AllJustADream reveal the set and crew]]. Often this will involve self-mockery by taking previously utilized tropes UpToEleven, the story being RecycledInSpace or another increase in weirdness.

* In the Winona Ryder adaptation of ''Film/LittleWomen'', Jo is inspired to write a novel about her life with her sisters when going through her sister Beth's things after she dies. (This does not happen in the book, although the Jo of the books does become a successful author.)

* Tried (not particularly effectively) by Creator/WilliamGoldman in ''The Color Of Light''. It's glaringly obvious throughout the novel that it's an edited version of his own life, including tons of shoutouts to his previous stories. The novel ends with him deciding to turn his life into a novel. It's a pointless ending at best.

* The book ''Freaky Friday'' turns out to be Annabelle's English project, thought the events were supposed to have really happened.

* The children's book ''Literature/TheEnormousEgg'' features this.

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May be responded to with WhoWouldWantToWatchUs. Compare with NarratorAllAlong and TagalongChronicler. WriteWhatYouKnow and WriteWhoYouKnow occur when an author draws general inspiration from their experiences or people in their lives. Also see WritingAboutYourCrime. ItsForABook is when writing becomes an excuse for dubious interests. Don't confuse with WroteTheBook, as there they may not have literally written a book.

* ''Film/TheUnbearableWeightOfMassiveTalent'' has Creator/NicolasCage agree at roughly the start of Act II to help aspiring screenwriter Javi Gutierrez write a script for his next movie, which Javi decides to revolve around their budding friendship.

* Sinbat's ending from ''VideoGame/ArabianFight'' have him rescuing the princess and deciding to continue his journeys as a sailor. And years later, he compiles his adventures into a novel series, titled "[[ArabianFight Arabian Fight]]" to be passed down generations.

* If you stayed on good terms with Martin Summers through VisualNovel/HotelDuskRoom215, he sends Kyle a letter explaining he's going to write a new novel based off of him. Kyle isn't much of a reader and Summers isn't much of a writer, so his reaction is less than enthusiastic. He apparently decides to go for it later in life, as the novel Summers writes turns out as the InGameNovel version of VisualNovel/LastWindow.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/PaperMario'', one NPC says that he's written a book about Mario's quest, entitled ''Paper Mario''.
** You can actually see the book in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', where the ghost Neville can be observed reading a novel entitled "Mario Story", the Japanese name for Paper Mario.

* Maya, from ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'' actually does this, selling the story of the Kamen Riders as a children's novel at the end of the series.

* ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'' ends with the protagonist Sento having written his adventures as Kamen Rider Build into a set of scripts (49 of them, to be precise) and planning on selling it to a production company. [[spoiler:It helps that the defeat of the BigBad left Sento and TheLancer Banjou in a new world where the events of the series never happened, meaning nobody would realize that the story is based on real events.]]