Stayed up too late writing Used a placeholder New character: human or other Unexpected death Love interests meet/Good guy meets bad guy Finished Act 1 Plot bunny showed up Finished Act 2 Unexpected twist Characters surprised you Won Nano! Villain showed up Wrote outside or in public place Started editing Halfway point: 25,000 words! Wrote a red herring Missed a day Big twist Started over 40,000 words 10,000 words Characters kiss Character made a bad decision Gave yourself/ someone else a pep talk 30,000 words Got stuck Did something for yourself Found a plot hole Kill a character Titled your story Poisoned someone Snuck in some writing Mistaken Identity Wrote 3 days in a row Save a character Stayed up too late writing Used a placeholder New character: human or other Unexpected death Love interests meet/Good guy meets bad guy Finished Act 1 Plot bunny showed up Finished Act 2 Unexpected twist Characters surprised you Won Nano! Villain showed up Wrote outside or in public place Started editing Halfway point: 25,000 words! Wrote a red herring Missed a day Big twist Started over 40,000 words 10,000 words Characters kiss Character made a bad decision Gave yourself/ someone else a pep talk 30,000 words Got stuck Did something for yourself Found a plot hole Kill a character Titled your story Poisoned someone Snuck in some writing Mistaken Identity Wrote 3 days in a row Save a character
(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.
Stayed
up too
late
writing
Used
a
placeholder
New character:
human or other
Unexpected
death
Love interests meet/Good
guy meets
bad guy
Finished Act 1
Plot bunny showed up
Finished Act 2
Unexpected
twist
Characters
surprised
you
Won
Nano!
Villain showed up
Wrote
outside or in
public place
Started
editing
Halfway
point:
25,000
words!
Wrote a red herring
Missed a day
Big twist
Started
over
40,000
words
10,000
words
Characters kiss
Character
made
a bad
decision
Gave
yourself/
someone else
a
pep talk
30,000
words
Got stuck
Did
something
for
yourself
Found a plot
hole
Kill a character
Titled
your
story
Poisoned someone
Snuck
in some
writing
Mistaken Identity
Wrote
3 days
in a
row
Save a character