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