The story began to write a story.
This was most unusual. It flailed around looking for a subject. It suddenly occurred to it that the writer usually wrote the story, and that being the case, why couldn’t the story write a story about the writer? Straight away it realised that it knew very little about the writer. It knew from its personal experience of watching stories being written that the writer needed to have a firm grip on the subject to create a good story. So, it decided to hold off for a while until it was able to observe the writer, writing.
Unfortunately, the writer couldn’t come up with a subject to write about. This meant that the writer didn’t write a story, leaving the story with nothing to write about. This, in itself was a disappointment, but having often witnessed the writer experiencing the same lack of subject matter, it didn’t feel so bad about it.
In fact, it decided that the story should stick to what it was, a story.