too muchtime spentwith the sidecharactershaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pageoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?don'tknow howto end asceneare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??planned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherstallinga fightscenedid youtwo justKISS??feeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidcharactergrowstoo earlyjust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyforgot acharacterhasglassesdon'tknowwhosePOV to docharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelsecharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowdon'tknow howto start asceneplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaycharacterwas notsupposedto do thatwhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?forgot acharacterwas inthat sceneunexpectedmentalbreakdownrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVstartinga sceneoverswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenetoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactershaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pageoh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?don'tknow howto end asceneare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??planned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherstallinga fightscenedid youtwo justKISS??feeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidcharactergrowstoo earlyjust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyforgot acharacterhasglassesdon'tknowwhosePOV to docharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelsecharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowdon'tknow howto start asceneplanningfor a scenethat's agesawaycharacterwas notsupposedto do thatwhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?forgot acharacterwas inthat sceneunexpectedmentalbreakdownrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVstartinga sceneoverswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scene

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