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>The protagonist is a writer with writer's block
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>The protagonist is a writer with writer's block
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>the protagonist is a woman with a woman's cock
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>>7743551
>the protagonist is an alcoholic writer
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>>7743555
>the protagonist puts girl dicks inside her
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>protagonist is a bohemian drug addict
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>the author isn't Gene Wolfe
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>protagonist is a tranny with a big fat dick
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>the protagonist is white and posts shitty memes
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>the protagonist is an author
Why is this so easy to write but also so easy to dislike
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>book contains a protagonist
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>>7743544
>the book was written by an author
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>>7743544
This entry brought to you by the
>Author Fell For The Write What You Know Meme
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>woman author
>it's a book about gender roles
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>the protagonist is the author
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>The protagonist is alcholic, nihilist and suicidal but somehow is witty and cool and gets laid
Worst thing ever
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>the protagonist is the narrator
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>protaganist is a divorcee
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>The writer knows that's a cliché but he writes it anyway because muh forth wall/muh awareness/muh irony
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>the protagonist is just a meme bro
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>Protagonist is Pepe the Frog™
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>protagonist is bland but women throw themselves at him left and right
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>>7743544

>writer is main character
>final chapter reveals that they are going to publish the book you just read
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>The protagonist is a white male
>The author is a white male
GEE
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>>7743544
>the protagonist is a self insert of the author
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>capitalist author
>main unquestionably accepts his role within a capitalist society
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>the protagonist is an anime character
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>>7743551
>>7743559
uh

source pls
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>>7743572
>reader is a nerd

:^)
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>the protagonist goes on a killing spree
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>protagonist has no idea what to do with his life and ends up leading a directionless existence from his parent's basement (at least it has windows, right?) and spends his days stating his opinion about books he only pretends to have read (all in their original language, of course) on a magyar horse archery forum
>the only reason he hasn't killed himself at this point in the story is a vague feeling of guilt and the fact that he's excited for the release of future video games which he will pay for with a hard working tax payer's hard earned money
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>>7744258
I know people that fit that description.
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>>7743544
The protagonist isn't blocked, but content as is, whether or not seeds of genius lay dormant deep within.
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>>7744271
oh, so do i
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>The protagonist is experiencing a deep existential crisis
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>protagonist is a normal guy thrust into WILD and CUH-RAZY situations
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>>7743624

It shows laziness on the author's part since they're just writing about what they know and their own life, and also because it's just been done to absolute death by a hundred authors before.
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>protagonist finds a macguffin that will lead him towards fulfilling his destiny
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Name one book where this happens
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>>7743795

ayyyy lmao
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>>7743544
Hi Stephen King.
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frogs!
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I'm here at the university library and I'd like to open and read this thread, but I'm far too shameful if there isn't any page without fucking comic frogs.
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>>7745075
>filename

nice kek
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>>7744585
>tfw writing a Macguffin The Movie screenplay
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Be sure to report every faggot ITT.
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>it's a book by a negro
>everything in nigger dialect
What a crutch.
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>protagonist is destitute

wish they would just stop with this unrelateable bullshit
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Mao II
>book about writer
>is an alcoholic
GOAT
probably the only book that pulls off such a historically boring premise, just saying
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Writing about a writer is the most trite tope of the last century. Any book like this should be discarded on sight.
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>protagonist never says anything not in response to other peoples questions
>gets laid without having a full conversation ever
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>>7745329
ever been attractive?
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>the book makes fun of the reader
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>book is about the importance of books
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>book set in the 1980s
>the power of love starts playing
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>middle class protagonist rebels against his meaningless existence
>middle class readers celebrate book, go on as usual
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>>7746441
catcher in the rye
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>the protagonist is cynical, tired, and nihilistic
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>the antihero is intelligent, nihilistic, with a wicked sense of humor
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>>7743572
I like The Recognitions too.
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>protagonist isn't cis white male
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>>7746395
ken fit ya fud
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>>7747139
I just realised how well this fits Thus Spake Zarathustra
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