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