what doesthischaracterlook likeagain?haven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagestartinga sceneoverstallinga fightsceneswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenedid youtwo justKISS??forgot acharacterwas inthat scenejust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storycharactergrowstoo earlycharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowcharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseunexpectedmentalbreakdownoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?planned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherfeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saiddon'tknowwhosePOV to doare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??don'tknow howto start asceneforgot acharacterhasglassesplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaytoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharacterscharacterwas notsupposedto do thatrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVdon'tknow howto end ascenewhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?haven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagestartinga sceneoverstallinga fightsceneswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenedid youtwo justKISS??forgot acharacterwas inthat scenejust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storycharactergrowstoo earlycharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowcharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseunexpectedmentalbreakdownoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?planned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherfeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saiddon'tknowwhosePOV to doare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??don'tknow howto start asceneforgot acharacterhasglassesplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaytoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharacterscharacterwas notsupposedto do thatrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVdon'tknow howto end ascene

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