characterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowtoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVcharactergrowstoo earlycharacterwas notsupposedto do thatswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenejust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherdid youtwo justKISS??forgot acharacterwas inthat sceneoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?don'tknow howto start ascenedon'tknow howto end ascenedon'tknowwhosePOV to dohaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pageplanningfor a scenethat's agesawayforgot acharacterhasglassesare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??characters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseunexpectedmentalbreakdownstartinga sceneoverwhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?feeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidstallinga fightscenecharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowtoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVcharactergrowstoo earlycharacterwas notsupposedto do thatswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenejust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherdid youtwo justKISS??forgot acharacterwas inthat sceneoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?don'tknow howto start ascenedon'tknow howto end ascenedon'tknowwhosePOV to dohaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pageplanningfor a scenethat's agesawayforgot acharacterhasglassesare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??characters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseunexpectedmentalbreakdownstartinga sceneoverwhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?feeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidstallinga fightscene

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