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