don'tknow howto end ascenerealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVstartinga sceneovertoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersdon'tknowwhosePOV to dounexpectedmentalbreakdownplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaycharacterwas notsupposedto do thatcharactergrowstoo earlywhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?don'tknow howto start asceneswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a sceneplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherforgot acharacterwas inthat scenecharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knoware you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??stallinga fightscenehaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagefeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saiddid youtwo justKISS??forgot acharacterhasglassescharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelsejust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?don'tknow howto end ascenerealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVstartinga sceneovertoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersdon'tknowwhosePOV to dounexpectedmentalbreakdownplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaycharacterwas notsupposedto do thatcharactergrowstoo earlywhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?don'tknow howto start asceneswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a sceneplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherforgot acharacterwas inthat scenecharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knoware you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??stallinga fightscenehaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagefeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saiddid youtwo justKISS??forgot acharacterhasglassescharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelsejust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyoh 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.


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