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