haven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagedon'tknow howto start asceneforgot acharacterwas inthat scenedid youtwo justKISS??charactergrowstoo earlyare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??oh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?just wrotetwentypages of not-my-storydon'tknow howto end asceneswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenecharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelsestallinga fightsceneunexpectedmentalbreakdowncharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherfeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidtoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersdon'tknowwhosePOV to doforgot acharacterhasglasseswhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?planningfor a scenethat's agesawaycharacterwas notsupposedto do thatstartinga sceneoverrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POVhaven'tmentionedthe POVcharacter ina pagedon'tknow howto start asceneforgot acharacterwas inthat scenedid youtwo justKISS??charactergrowstoo earlyare you twoflirting? ithought youhated eachother??oh wait,there's aplot, isn'tthere?just wrotetwentypages of not-my-storydon'tknow howto end asceneswitchedPOVs inthe middleof a scenecharacters beingcute become themain focus of ascene that wassupposed to beabout somethingelsestallinga fightsceneunexpectedmentalbreakdowncharacterrevealssomethingimportant thatyou didn't knowplanned this scenefor one character'sPOV and justrealized youstarted writing it inanotherfeeling calledout bysomething oneof yourcharacters saidtoo muchtime spentwith the sidecharactersdon'tknowwhosePOV to doforgot acharacterhasglasseswhat doesthischaracterlook likeagain?planningfor a scenethat's agesawaycharacterwas notsupposedto do thatstartinga sceneoverrealizinghalfway throughthat youshould've donea different POV

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