characterwas notsupposedto do thatswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenecharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??unexpectedmentalbreakdownforgot acharacterhasglassesoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?planningfor a scenethat's agesawayjust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storydon'tknowwhosePOV to doforgot acharacterwas inthat scenedid youtwo justKISS??don'tknow howto end ascenetoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersdon'tknow howto start ascenecharactergrowstoo earlystallinga fightscenehaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagestartinga sceneoverfeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidwhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?characters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelserealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVcharacterwas notsupposedto do thatswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenecharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??unexpectedmentalbreakdownforgot acharacterhasglassesoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?planningfor a scenethat's agesawayjust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storydon'tknowwhosePOV to doforgot acharacterwas inthat scenedid youtwo justKISS??don'tknow howto end ascenetoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersdon'tknow howto start ascenecharactergrowstoo earlystallinga fightscenehaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagestartinga sceneoverfeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidwhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?characters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelserealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POV

Writer's Pain Bingo - 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.


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  1. character was not supposed to do that
  2. switched POVs in the middle of a scene
  3. character reveals something important that you didn't know
  4. planned this scene for one character's POV and just realized you started writing it in another
  5. are you two flirting? i thought you hated each other??
  6. unexpected mental breakdown
  7. forgot a character has glasses
  8. oh wait, there's a plot, isn't there?
  9. planning for a scene that's ages away
  10. just wrote twenty pages of not-my-story
  11. don't know whose POV to do
  12. forgot a character was in that scene
  13. did you two just KISS??
  14. don't know how to end a scene
  15. too much time spent with the side characters
  16. don't know how to start a scene
  17. character grows too early
  18. stalling a fight scene
  19. haven't mentioned the POV character in a page
  20. starting a scene over
  21. feeling called out by something one of your characters said
  22. what does this character look like again?
  23. characters being cute become the main focus of a scene that was supposed to be about something else
  24. realizing halfway through that you should've done a different POV