Write as the victim Don't have story arc make your character unsympathetic Make your focus BROAD Blame others Have nothing to teach reader Use passive voice Don't have an inciting incident Embellish the truth Tell, don't show Dump back story in chunks No theme Don't have a theme Try to sound "writerly" Use lots of autobiographical data No psychics Don't have a captivating plot No sense of place Assume your reader knows locale Use cliches Write a long timeframe Exhibit no self- awareness Have an unwieldly story No character transformation Write as the victim Don't have story arc make your character unsympathetic Make your focus BROAD Blame others Have nothing to teach reader Use passive voice Don't have an inciting incident Embellish the truth Tell, don't show Dump back story in chunks No theme Don't have a theme Try to sound "writerly" Use lots of autobiographical data No psychics Don't have a captivating plot No sense of place Assume your reader knows locale Use cliches Write a long timeframe Exhibit no self- awareness Have an unwieldly story No character transformation
(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.
Write as the victim
Don't have story arc
make your character unsympathetic
Make your focus BROAD
Blame others
Have nothing to teach reader
Use passive voice
Don't have an inciting incident
Embellish the truth
Tell, don't show
Dump back story in chunks
No theme
Don't have a theme
Try to sound "writerly"
Use lots of autobiographical data
No psychics
Don't have a captivating plot
No sense of place
Assume your reader knows locale
Use cliches
Write a long timeframe
Exhibit no self-awareness
Have an unwieldly story
No character transformation