Carol's How to write a bad memoir - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. Make your focus BROAD
2. Don't have an inciting incident
3. No psychics
4. No character transformation
5. Exhibit no self-awareness
6. Blame others
7. Embellish the truth
8. Write a long timeframe
9. Assume your reader knows locale
10. make your character unsympathetic
11. Tell, don't show
12. Use passive voice
13. Don't have story arc
14. Use lots of autobiographical data
15. Use cliches
16. Have nothing to teach reader
17. Don't have a captivating plot
18. Dump back story in chunks
19. No sense of place
20. Try to sound "writerly"
21. No theme
22. Don't have a theme
23. Write as the victim
24. Have an unwieldly story