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