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