Basic Trope Description: A writer writes about characters who are also professional writers by trade.
- Straight: Alice Troper's main hero, Bob, is a novelist by trade like herself.
- Exaggerated: Every character who ever appeared in one of Alice Troper's books is a professional writer.
- Downplayed: Bob has a job with books and is e. g. a lector or a literature critic.
- Justified: Write What You Know
- Inverted:
- Alice Troper isn't a professional writer, and, in fact, knows literally nothing about the writing business. Her main character, Bob, is a novelist anyway.
- Alice Troper is a professional writer, and, in fact, knows the writing business like the very back of her hand. Her main character, Bob, is not a novelist and never plans on taking up writing any time soon.
- Subverted: Bob, a character invented by the writer Alice Troper, is writing a novel at the beginning of the novel, but he is just trying out a possible new hobby.
- Double Subverted: Bob takes up writing as a hobby for real, and becomes a professional novelist by the ending.
- Enforced: Alice's publisher wants to encourage more young people to take up writing.
- Averted: Nobody in Alice Troper's works is a professional novelist.
- Parodied: Alice, a novelist, writes a book about Bob, a novelist...who writes a book about Charlie, a novelist...who writes a book about Darlene, a novelist...
- Zigzagged: In some volumes of the series, Bob lives from writing, in others, he can't afford it, and in others, he doesn't even try to live as a professional novelist.
- Invoked: Ellie, a coach for aspiring writers, asks her students to write a story about another writer for practice.
- Exploited: Alice's publisher, knowing Alice's habit, persuades her to write about other writers under the wing of the publisher to advertise them.
- Defied: Bob in the novels thinks about becoming a writer as a teenager, but decides to get a more secure job.
- Lampshaded: "I'm writing so many stories, and sometimes I feel like if there is someone out there just writing my own story."
- Discussed: "Why do you write about the lives of other writers?" "Well, they are relatable for me. They do what I do."
- Conversed: "I like writing stories myself. Maybe I have a writer too?"
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