planningfor a scenethat's agesawayjust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?forgot acharacterhasglassesare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??realizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVunexpectedmentalbreakdowndon'tknow howto start ascenedon'tknow howto end ascenecharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenehaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pageplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherforgot acharacterwas inthat scenestartinga sceneoverwhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?charactergrowstoo earlytoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersfeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidcharacterwas notsupposedto do thatdid youtwo justKISS??characterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowstallinga fightscenedon'tknowwhosePOV to doplanningfor a scenethat's agesawayjust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?forgot acharacterhasglassesare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??realizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVunexpectedmentalbreakdowndon'tknow howto start ascenedon'tknow howto end ascenecharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenehaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pageplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherforgot acharacterwas inthat scenestartinga sceneoverwhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?charactergrowstoo earlytoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersfeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidcharacterwas notsupposedto do thatdid youtwo justKISS??characterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowstallinga fightscenedon'tknowwhosePOV to do

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