did youtwo justKISS??forgot acharacterhasglasseshaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pageplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaycharacterwas notsupposedto do thatdon'tknow howto start ascenecharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseunexpectedmentalbreakdownoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?characterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowstartinga sceneovercharactergrowstoo earlyare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??just wrotetwentypages of not-my-storydon'tknow howto end ascenerealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenedon'tknowwhosePOV to dowhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?feeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidtoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersstallinga fightsceneforgot acharacterwas inthat sceneplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherdid youtwo justKISS??forgot acharacterhasglasseshaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pageplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaycharacterwas notsupposedto do thatdon'tknow howto start ascenecharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseunexpectedmentalbreakdownoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?characterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowstartinga sceneovercharactergrowstoo earlyare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??just wrotetwentypages of not-my-storydon'tknow howto end ascenerealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenedon'tknowwhosePOV to dowhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?feeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidtoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersstallinga fightsceneforgot acharacterwas inthat sceneplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanother

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