Is this the twist at the end?

It's interesting reading the many reviews (however I did not read them all I must confess) and the ending/meaning of this story doesn't really come the forefront like I believe it should, or essentially your question, "What did happen?"

Interesting the different takes on the film, but I would have to agree that the movie is just about a writer, whom has written a book about young and struggling writer. One thing I always ask myself, is what is the meaning of the title? Many times, it means very little, sometimes it's a lot. This time, I think it's a lot.

What makes someone have the right to organize a series of words together, and claim that organization of words to be "his"? Think about it, it's a weird art form. Writers don't invent new words, so why are some books "great" while others aren't? The "Old Man" claims you must have "felt it". The young Rory believed you just had to "dream it", hence his his 3 year journey to write about very deep subject matter without any real experience.

Not only does that fact that the writer is narrating the story to us give us the ultimate clue the rest of the story is made-up, but the story between Rory and Dora doesn't have enough background,comes in too abruptly.