charactergrowstoo earlyrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVdon'tknow howto end ascenefeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidforgot acharacterhasglassestoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersdon'tknowwhosePOV to dowhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?unexpectedmentalbreakdownforgot acharacterwas inthat sceneplanningfor a scenethat's agesawayare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??startinga sceneoverplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherstallinga fightscenejust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storydid youtwo justKISS??characterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowcharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenecharacterwas notsupposedto do thathaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagedon'tknow howto start asceneoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?charactergrowstoo earlyrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVdon'tknow howto end ascenefeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidforgot acharacterhasglassestoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersdon'tknowwhosePOV to dowhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?unexpectedmentalbreakdownforgot acharacterwas inthat sceneplanningfor a scenethat's agesawayare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??startinga sceneoverplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherstallinga fightscenejust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storydid youtwo justKISS??characterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowcharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenecharacterwas notsupposedto do thathaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagedon'tknow howto start asceneoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?

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.


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