stallinga fightscenedon'tknowwhosePOV to doplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaydid youtwo justKISS??characters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseunexpectedmentalbreakdowncharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowdon'tknow howto end ascenehaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagefeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenewhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?forgot acharacterwas inthat scenecharacterwas notsupposedto do thatjust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storydon'tknow howto start ascenestartinga sceneovertoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?realizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVcharactergrowstoo earlyplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??forgot acharacterhasglassesstallinga fightscenedon'tknowwhosePOV to doplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaydid youtwo justKISS??characters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseunexpectedmentalbreakdowncharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowdon'tknow howto end ascenehaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagefeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenewhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?forgot acharacterwas inthat scenecharacterwas notsupposedto do thatjust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storydon'tknow howto start ascenestartinga sceneovertoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?realizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVcharactergrowstoo earlyplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??forgot acharacterhasglasses

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