charactergrowstoo earlyrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a sceneare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??just wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyhaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagecharacterwas notsupposedto do thatstartinga sceneoverplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaycharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelsedid youtwo justKISS??unexpectedmentalbreakdownforgot acharacterwas inthat sceneforgot acharacterhasglasseswhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?characterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherdon'tknowwhosePOV to dostallinga fightscenefeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saiddon'tknow howto start asceneoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?don'tknow howto end ascenetoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharacterscharactergrowstoo earlyrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a sceneare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??just wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyhaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagecharacterwas notsupposedto do thatstartinga sceneoverplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaycharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelsedid youtwo justKISS??unexpectedmentalbreakdownforgot acharacterwas inthat sceneforgot acharacterhasglasseswhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?characterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherdon'tknowwhosePOV to dostallinga fightscenefeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saiddon'tknow howto start asceneoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?don'tknow howto end ascenetoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharacters

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