Anyone interested in a game of Writer Bingo?

I've been providing Bingo cards for the Category Challenge group for a while yet, and I thought -- what about a Writer Bingo game? So I put together some cards and posted them in the Hobnob Group. (You have to scroll past the LT Author Bingo cards to see the Writer's Bingo cards.) I don't know if anyone here would be interested in playing with me, but I figured it would be worth asking. :)

(And if anyone wants to try LT Author Bingo, I'd love to have some other people playing along with me on that one too.)

Like... this...?

Oh, wow, that works! It's pretty~!

Umm... also... bingo!

Nice!

So what are you writing, that got you so much covered so quickly? :)

Thanks. Urban fantasy short stories. I started one, my main WIP, that appears to be growing a little novelete, plus I worked on a few shorter stories that popped up in January.

I suspect short stories would be an advantage for this.

Maybe I need to make a separate card for short story writers?
What do you think? Can you think of any good squares for one?

Hi, again! Checking Talk wasn't *yet* one of my habits last month.

Advantages...? I'm not sure writing short stories makes playing easier. Some of my unmarked squares, I would likely have hit in the same amount of time with my novels. Poetry can also fill up many of the squares.

I don't want to discourage another writer filling up the card faster than expected. The code should work in private messages on this site, so I'll keep future uses to myself.

In case I haven't said-- This tool is clever, pretty, and fun. Thank you for creating it, LShelby.

I figured I'd start this thread back up again, I don't know why. It's 2020, and I've already written a ton! I finished my first book, in fact. So I filled out what I've done in these first days of 2020.

>I'm glad there are people having fun with it. Clearly I need to make a 2020 card.

Anyone have suggestions for squares?

The great-grandmother stood still, watching the birth of a small forest fawn. She leaned quietly on her hoe. The garden was a strange place for this, but the mother looked well fed. Perhaps this accounted for the deer tracks in the garden, and the missing rows of lettuces. The little fawn stood, shook, and unsteadily pranced around her mother. Soon they would move along, but they would return. There were more lettuces in the garden.

Bingo for Column 2

>10 StorybookCat: Excellent microfiction! Congrats.

>11 aspirit: Thanks!

The deer don't get as far as our yard, but we do have a groundhog that has moved in under the shed. :)

Hello, StorybookCat!
Do you need help figuring out how to post the card, or are you just not that interested in doing the fancy graphic version?

And since I'm back...

But I wonder if I'm cheating because I've mostly been writing outlines and/or scripts. :)

But as reference--
1) the plot of "My Action Hero" (contemporary action/romance tv series the outline for which is in progress) involves conflict over a a thumb-drive containing a vital list of names
2) In "Hostage Heart" (contemporary action/romance tv series for which I have written 25K words of outline + dialog) everyone is always talking on the phone.
4) Rewrote the bit in Lioness (fantasy novel, complete at 140K words, about which my publisher said yesterday "I am almost finished with my reactions to your book, I apologize about it taking six months longer than anticipated") where the the heroine fixes the spinning wheel
5) Did this at least once last week. Go me!
7) Too many of these to specify
8) What happened when Dharuz tried to give away one of its colony worlds, from the glossaries of Sails of Everwind (SF novel, complete, awaiting copyedits and a cover)
9) The plot of "Bait" (contemporary action/romance tv series for which I have written a 6K words outline) is kicked off when my heroine is abducted. This actually ends up getting her off the streets and into a nice home... who knew?
10) Too many of these to specify
12) In "Hostage Heart' help appears in the form of a gang of teen-aged would-be thugs. You just never know, I guess. In "Trillium" (high fantasy tv series for which I have written an 8K outline) help arrives in the form of a demon prince.
14) In "Hostage Heart" the villainess hold a big birthday party for herself.
16) The setting for "Trillium" is very, very foriegn. Trust me on this. Just to kick things off, everyone there is already dead.
17) Wrote up a description of an alien fish for the Sails of Everwind glossaries.
18) Too many of these to specify, I am a speculative fiction author after all.
19) This probably happened somewhere but I guess if I can't think of when and where it doesn't count.
20) Too many examples to specify
21) "Trillium" features triplet sisters, hence the name. In "Hostage Heart" the male lead is the son of a gang leader, and the second male lead is the son of the rival gang's leader.
23) In "Trillium" the heroines start out as disembodied souls (they are dead after all). They need to have bodies created for them. Two of them end up having to have large portions of their bodies re-created also. (Who said the after-life was easy?)
24) Everything I've worked on this year had fight scenes.

>13 LShelby: My you have written a lot :) No deer lately, but I have family members who plant extra lettuces for the local rabbits. And thanks, I just did this on a whim, but I went back and figured out how to add the picture.

>14 StorybookCat:
Playing Bingo makes it look like I've written a lot, so I guess it's a good way to cheer myself up. I tend to consider this year a very slow year, because I didn't finish a book this year.

(I suppose I could pretend like I'm doing NaNoWriMo late, and try force myself to finish something in Dec., but in general I feel that when I'm forcing things it just leads to lower quality, and I usually end up deleting it all later and completely rewriting it.)

It used to be rabbits in our yard too, but this year there have been fewer rabbits and more groundhogs.

We did get one rabbit caught in the fence this spring, though. Poor thing. My daughter had to cut it free with wire-cutters. Luckily we were planning to remove the fence anyway.