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