Basic Trope: A creator's work is directly informed by issues in their personal lives, usually of a painful, traumatic or unhappy nature. * Straight: In response to Bob's divorce, Bob writes a story in which Alice and Mike, his fictional couple, break up. * Exaggerated: * Bob has an argument with his wife, and in response writes a 1000 page epic in which Mike is tortured by Alice, a nagging shrew. * Bob literally breaks down from over-exertion from working on this book non-stop. * Justified: True Art Is Angsty and it's often helpful for creative artists to explore problems in their lives using fictional equivalents. * Inverted: * Bob writes a story in which Mike is divorced by Alice; Bob's wife, reading this, divorces him. * Bob's story completely aborts Cere