just wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyhaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagefeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saiddon'tknow howto start asceneplanningfor a scenethat's agesawayunexpectedmentalbreakdowncharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelsewhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?are you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??stallinga fightscenecharactergrowstoo earlyswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenecharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowdid youtwo justKISS??oh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?forgot acharacterwas inthat sceneplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherstartinga sceneoverforgot acharacterhasglassesrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVcharacterwas notsupposedto do thattoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersdon'tknow howto end ascenedon'tknowwhosePOV to dojust wrotetwentypages of not-my-storyhaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagefeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saiddon'tknow howto start asceneplanningfor a scenethat's agesawayunexpectedmentalbreakdowncharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelsewhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?are you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??stallinga fightscenecharactergrowstoo earlyswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenecharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowdid youtwo justKISS??oh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?forgot acharacterwas inthat sceneplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherstartinga sceneoverforgot acharacterhasglassesrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVcharacterwas notsupposedto do thattoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersdon'tknow howto end ascenedon'tknowwhosePOV to do

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