don'tknow howto start ascenedon'tknow howto end ascenerealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVcharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseunexpectedmentalbreakdownare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??just wrotetwentypages of not-my-storytoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersforgot acharacterwas inthat scenecharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenedid youtwo justKISS??oh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?haven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagestartinga sceneovercharacterwas notsupposedto do thatforgot acharacterhasglassesfeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaydon'tknowwhosePOV to docharactergrowstoo earlywhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?stallinga fightscenedon'tknow howto start ascenedon'tknow howto end ascenerealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVcharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelseunexpectedmentalbreakdownare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??just wrotetwentypages of not-my-storytoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersforgot acharacterwas inthat scenecharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenedid youtwo justKISS??oh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?haven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagestartinga sceneovercharacterwas notsupposedto do thatforgot acharacterhasglassesfeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaydon'tknowwhosePOV to docharactergrowstoo earlywhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?stallinga 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. don't know how to start a scene
  2. don't know how to end a scene
  3. realizing halfway through that you should've done a different POV
  4. characters being cute become the main focus of a scene that was supposed to be about something else
  5. unexpected mental breakdown
  6. are you two flirting? i thought you hated each other??
  7. just wrote twenty pages of not-my-story
  8. too much time spent with the side characters
  9. forgot a character was in that scene
  10. character reveals something important that you didn't know
  11. planned this scene for one character's POV and just realized you started writing it in another
  12. switched POVs in the middle of a scene
  13. did you two just KISS??
  14. oh wait, there's a plot, isn't there?
  15. haven't mentioned the POV character in a page
  16. starting a scene over
  17. character was not supposed to do that
  18. forgot a character has glasses
  19. feeling called out by something one of your characters said
  20. planning for a scene that's ages away
  21. don't know whose POV to do
  22. character grows too early
  23. what does this character look like again?
  24. stalling a fight scene