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