@Cynic My thinking was more along the lines of: there's no way she could remember a book literally word for word, so she must be good enough at writing to fill in the blanks. If she's already stealing stories from people, why not just steal an ending from a different story? Writer's block is a real pain, true, but she doesn't even try to look at other stories for """""inspiration""""", she just jumps straight to "hang from the ceiling by my hair" and "eat. eat for writing energy."
I think it would've been better if she'd have written an ending cribbed from other stories, and the publishers are like "this is
obviously taken from this other story???? Do it again", and
then we get her absolutely failing to think of anything by herself. It's just weird to me that such a serial plagiarist's immediate reaction to the problem wouldn't be more plagiary
But yeah, I wouldn't expect her to come up with anything original either, all she knows how to do is regurgitate things she's already read