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2/18/26: Experimental Fiction Bingo Card


Something for class today: an experimental fiction bingo card. It’s taken me years to create something like a taxonomy, even if sketchy. let me know if i’m missing something. bingo card courtesy of myfreebingocards.com

If you want to do your own, here’s the list I’m currently using – please let me know if you have any cool additions/amendments:

Mashups
Genre Crash
Broken Syntax / Sentences
Unstandard Content
Sampledelia
Algorithm & Constraint
Punctuation Play
Language Games
Metafiction
Output Methods
White Space
Stream of Consciousness
Surrealist Games
Nonsense / No-Sense
Rewritings
Multiverse / Universe Inconsistency
Marginalia
Erasure / Palimpsest
Footnotes & Endnotes
Performance / Reader Action
Cutups
Craft Destruction: Anti-Freytagian Plot
Craft Destruction: Wireframe Settings
Impossible Narrator(s)
Text / Image
Game Mechanic Fails
Freudian & Psychological Rejections
Flat Flat Characters / No Characters
Collective and/or Multiple Narrators
Associative / Non-Linear Transitions
Carrier Bag Theories
Undoing the Hero’s Journey