Plot Click for Advanced Options [Select a Primary Option] (optional)Animal story? Big Business story? Disaster Story Ethnic/regional/gender Family, hate Family, ill Family, love Food Job/profession/poverty story Kids growing up/acting up? Life in an institution Outdoors story Pal/friendship story Phys disability/mental struggle? Political/social rights fight Road trip Romance Royalty bio Sports story Taboo Sex Story? War/Spying [Select a Secondary Option] (optional)Animal story? Big Business story? Disaster Story Ethnic/regional/gender Family, hate Family, ill Family, love Food Job/profession/poverty story Kids growing up/acting up? Life in an institution Outdoors story Pal/friendship story Phys disability/mental struggle? Political/social rights fight Road trip Romance Royalty bio Sports story Taboo Sex Story? War/Spying [Select a Tertiary Option] (optional)Animal story? Big Business story? Disaster Story Ethnic/regional/gender Family, hate Family, ill Family, love Food Job/profession/poverty story Kids growing up/acting up? Life in an institution Outdoors story Pal/friendship story Phys disability/mental struggle? Political/social rights fight Road trip Romance Royalty bio Sports story Taboo Sex Story? War/Spying Period of greatest activity?1950+ 1900+ 1800's 1700's ancient times   Subject of Biography Click for Advanced Options GenderMale Female   Profession/status: a lawyer creature accountant accused criminal actor/actress/producer airforce pilot artist bounty hunter business executive champion of justice chef dictator diplomat doctor engineer explorer farmer gambler government investigator homemaker infantry soldier journalist killer magician musician musician navy soldier not employed but independently wealthy police/lawman politician/elected ruler Prince/Nobleman/King private investigator prostitute psychiatrist religious figure scholar scientist secretary servant slave slaver small businessman sports figure sports figure spy student teacher/professor thief/con artist trader unemployed veterinarian writer   Age: a kid a teen 20's-30's 40's-50's 60's-90's long lived adults   Eccentric/Mental  Biography of famous person?  EthnicityWhite Black American Indian Indian Indian Arab Jew Hispanic/Latinic Chinese Japanese Other Asian   NationalityAmerican (!) Irish/McCourt British French German Italian Scandinavian Eastern European Russian Greek Turk North African Subsaharan African Central/South American Japanese Chinese Australian Canadian Holland/Dutch   How sensitive is this person?soggy whimpering jelly muffin sensitive to others' feelings middling sensitive to others' feelings hard edged mean, arrogant   Sense of humorStrong but gentle sense of humor Cynical sense of humor Mostly serious with occasional humor   IntelligenceRetarded Dumb Average intelligence Smarter than most other people Very much smarter than other people Genius (really!)   Physiquebulging muscles very athletic average physique healthy but a geeky weakling physically sick druggie/wino disease missing body parts/abilities quite fatty   Setting Click for Advanced Options [Select a Primary Option] (optional)Africa Air? Asia/Pacific City? Desert? Europe Farm/Ranch? Forest? Ice Caps/Sea? Island? Jungles? Mountains/Cliffs Prairie? Small town? The Americas (not US): United States Water? [Select a Secondary Option] (optional)Africa Air? Asia/Pacific City? Desert? Europe Farm/Ranch? Forest? Ice Caps/Sea? Island? Jungles? Mountains/Cliffs Prairie? Small town? The Americas (not US): United States Water? [Select a Tertiary Option] (optional)Africa Air? Asia/Pacific City? Desert? Europe Farm/Ranch? Forest? Ice Caps/Sea? Island? Jungles? Mountains/Cliffs Prairie? Small town? The Americas (not US): United States Water? How much descriptions of surroundings?1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 -   Century:1980's-Present 1960's-1970's 1930's-1950's 1900-1920's 19th century 18th century 17th century distant past near future   Style Click for Advanced Options Personmostly 3rd mostly 1st rotating 1st   Accounts of torture and death?no torture/death generic/vague references to death/punishment moderately detailed references to deaths explicit references to deaths explicit references to torture very explicit references to deaths and torture   Book makes you feel?very happy encouraged challenged concerned depressed scared in awe spiritual angry thoughtful   Is book humorous?  Sex in book?   Lot of foul language?  Commentary on society?  Unusual Style: a lot of play on words a lot of flashback and forwards a lot of stream of consciousness   Writer's slant towards subject:very favorable favorable neutral somewhat unfavorable very unfavorable   Story of entire life, or part?story of nearly entire life story of set of events during life   Is this a biography of several people?  If this is a kid's book:Age 5-7 Age 8-10 Age 11-14 Age 14-16 Age 16-Adult   Autobiography?  Pictures/Illustrations?None A few 1-5 B&W More 6-10 B&W A lot 11-15 B&W A ton 16-20 B&W Some in color 1-5 More in color 6-10 A lot in color 11-15 More than 15 in color   Is this an e-book?  How much dialogue in bio? mostly dialog significantly more dialog than descript roughly even amounts of descript and dialog significantly more descript than dialog little dialog   A LOT of info about personal vices?  Lot of titilating info about love life?  How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?0-25% of book 26-50% of book 51%-75% of book 76%-100% of book