It's one option, just for the bingo card fills. Other lists have consistent themes; for example, "cotton candy bingo" specializes in lighthearted "fluff" stories.
Many people play two or more bingo cards simultaneously, for example, they might choose a particular square from a hurt/comfort card (there is a H/c bingo list) and a square from this card and combine prompts. Allbingo /allows/ this specifically, as long as you've directly answered a prompt on the card for each item. A bad example: a rite of passage "prom" plus the prompt "car trouble" from another list's bingo card, could be combined IF the action at the prom is intrinsic to the story/scene in the same way the car trouble is. The first line of the fill reads, "On the way to the prom, Joey's rattletrap Fiat left him stranded on the side of the road." Unless you /also/ talk about how he gets /to/ the prom (probably the resolution of the story I have in mind), you're not answering the "prom" prompt because its an incidental, throwaway bit setting the stage for the "car trouble" prompt. Clearer?
I'm hosting this one, hoping more people will give bingo cards a try even as a five-minute writing prompt to unstick the brain staring at a blank page. There will be much more information on the post on Jan 1; this was a preview to whet people's appetites.
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Many people play two or more bingo cards simultaneously, for example, they might choose a particular square from a hurt/comfort card (there is a H/c bingo list) and a square from this card and combine prompts. Allbingo /allows/ this specifically, as long as you've directly answered a prompt on the card for each item. A bad example: a rite of passage "prom" plus the prompt "car trouble" from another list's bingo card, could be combined IF the action at the prom is intrinsic to the story/scene in the same way the car trouble is. The first line of the fill reads, "On the way to the prom, Joey's rattletrap Fiat left him stranded on the side of the road." Unless you /also/ talk about how he gets /to/ the prom (probably the resolution of the story I have in mind), you're not answering the "prom" prompt because its an incidental, throwaway bit setting the stage for the "car trouble" prompt. Clearer?
I'm hosting this one, hoping more people will give bingo cards a try even as a five-minute writing prompt to unstick the brain staring at a blank page. There will be much more information on the post on Jan 1; this was a preview to whet people's appetites.