   Read Me!▄   ▄Welcome to my template I use to organize my novels. I hope that this helps you out in some way shape or form. :)

You can delete this file by highlighting it and hitting the trash can. I just wanted to say hi!

- Jam     Story Name - Put Story HereD   DPaste your story here to have an updated copy in Vault at all times.     Story Name - Characters>   >Character Profiles for Characters in 'Name' & Character Ideas.       COutlineListBoxItemBit CharactersА   АBit characters are normally characters that are small but make a meaningful impact to your story. Place their biographies below.  АBit Character 1           А	Character^   ^rename this to match your character and add the character biography (found in resources) here.    АCharacter 2u   urename this to match your character and add the character biography (found in resources) here.

Add more as needed.    АPossible Characters - Certain         АPossible Characters - Ideas           Story Name - General Notes/   /General Notes On 'Name' Terms & Defs, Resources   А	Resoursesc   cPlaces the resources you've used here, that way you can keep track of them if they're needed later.  АPeople4   4People Resources. Email address, phone numbers, ect.    А	Web Pages   Web Page Resouces.      АTerms & Definaitions           Story Name - Plot     'Name' Plot Outline & Plot Notes   АPlot - Snippets0   0Pre-Written snippets that go later in the story.    АPlot - Ideas/Variations/Stuff         АPlot - Outline         АPlot Ideas - Used           Story Name - To Edit   Edits To Make In 'Name'.   А
Characters         АLines         АPassages         АPlotm   mPlot Ideas. Put your plot ideas here, that way you can keep track of all the ideas you've had for your story.      	Resources4   4These are pre-found resources for your writing use.    АCharacter Biography Templateщ   щThe Character Biography Template, copy and paste into a character file and fill in for your character. Add/remove more information/questions as needed.

Full Name: 
Birthplace:
Parents:
Other Relitives:
Height: 
Weight: 
Eye Color: 
Hair Color: 
Hair Type: 
Age: 
Heritage: 
Build: 
City/State Currently: 
Birthplace: 
Line Of Work: 
Hobbies: 
Physical Scars: 
Emotional Scars:
Living Quarters: 
Pets: 
Family: 
Favorite Food: 
Favorite Song: 
Favorite Writer: 
Favorite Haunt: 
Bad Habbits: 
Habbits: 
Likes: 
Dislikes: 
Drives: 
Things Wants To Learn: 
Favorite Drink: 

Background:

Other Stuff:


Also, here is the list from http://www.geocities.com/poetess47/100questions.html

Part 1: The Basics
1.      What is your full name?

2.      Where and when were you born?

3.      Who are/were your parents?  (Know their names, occupations, personalities, etc.)

4.      Do you have any siblings?  What are/were they like?

5.      Where do you live now, and with whom?  Describe the place and the person/people.

6.      What is your occupation?

7.      Write a full physical description of yourself.  You might want to consider factors such as: height, weight, race, hair and eye color, style of dress, and any tattoos, scars, or distinguishing marks.

8.      To which social class do you belong?

9.      Do you have any allergies, diseases, or other physical weaknesses?

10. Are you right- or left-handed?

11. What does your voice sound like?

12. What words and/or phrases do you use very frequently?

13. What do you have in your pockets?

14. Do you have any quirks, strange mannerisms, annoying habits, or other defining characteristics?

 

Part 2: Growing Up
 

15. How would you describe your childhood in general?

16. What is your earliest memory?

17. How much schooling have you had?

18. Did you enjoy school?

19. Where did you learn most of your skills and other abilities?

20. While growing up, did you have any role models?  If so, describe them.

21. While growing up, how did you get along with the other members of your family?

22. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

23. As a child, what were your favorite activities?

24. As a child, what kinds of personality traits did you display?

25. As a child, were you popular?  Who were your friends, and what were they like?

26. When and with whom was your first kiss?

27. Are you a virgin?  If not, when and with whom did you lose your virginity?

28. If you are a supernatural being (i.e. mage, werewolf, vampire), tell the story of how you became what you are or first learned of your own abilities.  If you are just a normal human, describe any influences in your past that led you to do the things you do today.

 

Part 3: Past Influences
 

29. What do you consider the most important event of your life so far?

30. Who has had the most influence on you?

31. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

32. What is your greatest regret?

33. What is the most evil thing you have ever done?

34. Do you have a criminal record of any kind?

35. When was the time you were the most frightened?

36. What is the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to you?

37. If you could change one thing from your past, what would it be, and why?

38. What is your best memory?

39. What is your worst memory?

 
Part 4: Beliefs And Opinions
 

40. Are you basically optimistic or pessimistic?

41. What is your greatest fear?

42. What are your religious views?

43. What are your political views?

44. What are your views on sex?

45. Are you able to kill?  Under what circumstances do you find killing to be acceptable or unacceptable?

46. In your opinion, what is the most evil thing any human being could do?

47. Do you believe in the existence of soul mates and/or true love?

48. What do you believe makes a successful life?

49. How honest are you about your thoughts and feelings (i.e. do you hide your true self from others, and in what way)?

50. Do you have any biases or prejudices?

51. Is there anything you absolutely refuse to do under any circumstances?  Why do you refuse to do it?

52. Who or what, if anything, would you die for (or otherwise go to extremes for)?

 

Part 5: Relationships With Others
 

53. In general, how do you treat others (politely, rudely, by keeping them at a distance, etc.)?  Does your treatment of them change depending on how well you know them, and if so, how?

54. Who is the most important person in your life, and why?

55. Who is the person you respect the most, and why?

56. Who are your friends?  Do you have a best friend?  Describe these people.

57. Do you have a spouse or significant other?  If so, describe this person.

58. Have you ever been in love?  If so, describe what happened.

59. What do you look for in a potential lover?

60. How close are you to your family?

61. Have you started your own family?  If so, describe them.  If not, do you want to?  Why or why not?

62. Who would you turn to if you were in desperate need of help?

63. Do you trust anyone to protect you?  Who, and why?

64. If you died or went missing, who would miss you?

65. Who is the person you despise the most, and why?

66. Do you tend to argue with people, or avoid conflict?

67. Do you tend to take on leadership roles in social situations?

68. Do you like interacting with large groups of people?  Why or why not?

69. Do you care what others think of you?

 

Part 6: Likes And Dislikes
 

70. What is/are your favorite hobbies and pastimes?

71. What is your most treasured possession?

72. What is your favorite color?

73. What is your favorite food?

74. What, if anything, do you like to read?

75. What is your idea of good entertainment (consider music, movies, art, etc.)?

76. Do you smoke, drink, or use drugs?  If so, why?  Do you want to quit?

77. How do you spend a typical Saturday night?

78. What makes you laugh?

79. What, if anything, shocks or offends you?

80. What would you do if you had insomnia and had to find something to do to amuse yourself?

81. How do you deal with stress?

82. Are you spontaneous, or do you always need to have a plan?

83. What are your pet peeves?

 
Part 7: Self Images And Etc.
 

84. Describe the routine of a normal day for you.  How do you feel when this routine is disrupted?

85. What is your greatest strength as a person?

86. What is your greatest weakness?

87. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

88. Are you generally introverted or extroverted?

89. Are you generally organized or messy?

90. Name three things you consider yourself to be very good at, and three things you consider yourself to be very bad at.

91. Do you like yourself?

92. What are your reasons for being an adventurer (or doing the strange and heroic things that RPG characters do)?  Are your real reasons for doing this different than the ones you tell people in public?  (If so, detail both sets of reasons...)

93. What goal do you most want to accomplish in your lifetime?

94. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

95. If you could choose, how would you want to die?

96. If you knew you were going to die in 24 hours, name three things you would do in the time you had left.

97. What is the one thing for which you would most like to be remembered after your death?

98. What three words best describe your personality?

99. What three words would others probably use to describe you?

100. If you could, what advice would you, the player, give to your character?  (You might even want to speak as if he or she were sitting right here in front of you, and use proper tone so he or she might heed your advice...)
    АCharacter Resources   Web Sites that offer character help and resources.

http://www.geocities.com/poetess47/100questions.html
- 100 Most Important Things To Know About Your Character. (Thanks Kel)

http://www.characterpro.com/
- Character Creation Software. ($)

http://www.characterpro.com/devcenter/index.html
- Character Creation Center. Good Character Resources, Articals, Ect.

http://teenwriting.about.com/cs/creatingcharacter/
- More Character Development Resources

http://www.talewins.com/characters.htm
- Creating Good Characters

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Generatorsj   jWeb Sites that offer Name & Ect Generators.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Band_Naming/Random_Name_Generators/
- Yahoo's directory of random band name generators.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/
- Random Name Generators. From silly to fantasy to kung fu names.

http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm
- Random Name Gen.

http://rinkworks.com/namegen/
- Fantasy Name Gen.

http://xanthi.mhost.com/name.html
- A List of all sorts of Name Generators.


http://directory.google.com/Top/Games/Roleplaying/World_Building/Names/Generators/
- Googles Directory

http://dmoz.org/Games/Roleplaying/World_Building/Names/Generators/
- Directory of RPing Name Gens.

http://www.tlucretius.net/FengShui/
- List of a whole slue of different kinds of Generators, including name.

http://www.leonatkinson.com/random/
- A Whole buch more Generators.

    АGeneral Web Pages┘   ┘General web sites I've collected that may or may not come in handy with resources.

Train Information:
 
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=24863;article=535;show_parent=1 
- Train Wreck Board, offers information on train wrecks.

http://www.trainreport.com/
- Train reports and information. All sorts of stuff on trains.

http://www.amtrak.com/
- Amtrak's offical site. Includes schedual and stop information.

Area/Dialing Code Information : 

 http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/area.html
- Offers Area codes for every state and their GMT offset for time zones.

http://www.the-acr.com/codes/cntrycd.htm
- International Dialing Codes

Time Zone Information:

http://www.worldtimezone.com/
- Has Time Zone information for around the world.

Location Information:

http://www.mapquest.com
- Let's you look up addresses and directions to anyplace in the US.

http://www.mapblast.com
- Addresses & Directions. Also includes lodging information.

Goverment Information:

http://www.fs.fed.us/
- Forest Service Offical Site

http://www.gemcorinc.com/government1.html
- A list of some goverment sites, mostly education and grant/federal aid oriented.

http://www.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html
- A list of ALL the US Exeutive Brance Websites. Also has list to Legislative and Juditial site listings.

Health Information:

http://www.webmd.com
- Web MD is great, has all sorts of health related information.

http://medlineplus.gov/
- Medline Plus has health information from the National Library of Medicine. 

http://www.mentalhealth.org
- KEN has mental health information.

http://www.mentalhealth.com
- Internet Mental Health has mental heath information.

http://www.samhsa.gov
- Has substance abuse and mental health information.

Substance (Drug) Information:

http://www.health.org/  
- NCADI has information on substances and addictions.

http://www.cas.org/substance.html  
- Substance Information

Hazardous Substance information:

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

http://wrhsrc.orst.edu/
- West Regon Hazardous Substance Research Center

http://www.hsrc.org/hsrc/html/ssw/
- South & Southwest Hazardous Substance Research Center

http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/hazard/Draft1.0/P_List.html
- Dickinson List of Hazardous Chemical Waste

http://www.udel.edu/OHS/chemspillkit/chemspillguide.html
- OHS's Lab Chemical Spill Clean Up Procedures

Weapon Information:

http://www.selfdefenseproducts.com/stuninfo.htm
- Stun Gun Information

http://www.webcom.com/gun_guy/
- Huge Resource Of Gun Information Links. Includes Recalls, Dealers, Ect.

http://www.pro-resources.net/
- Information On Nuclear Weapons, Ect.

http://cutlerscove.com/links/knifeinformationsites.html
- Knife Resource Site. Lots of Links.

Forensic Information:

http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Forensics/
- Yahoo's Forensic Directory

http://www.prusik.com/K9Forensic/
- Institute For Cainine Forensics. Very Very Kewl.

http://forensic.to/forensic.html
- Zeno's Forensic Resources. Lots of Links.

http://www.imagingforensics.com/
- Information On Forensic Imagry

People Finder:

http://www.anywho.com
- Any Who...reverse look up, look up and business look up

School Information:

http://www.petersons.com/
- College, FA, ect. information (Thanks Mellie)

http://www.asd.com/
- Directory of K-12 schools in the US.

http://www.greatschools.com/
- School Directory & Guide

http://www.scre.ac.uk/bully/
- Bullying Information

Private Investigator Information:

http://www.consultant-cpp.com/private_investigator.htm
- Resources, Listing, Ect

http://www.privateinvestigatoranddetectivetrainingschool.com/index.pi&source=overture
-Resources, Information, Training

http://www.crimetime.com/
- Directory, Software, Information

Historical Information:

http://www.history.la.ca.us/hddirect.htm
- Directory of Historical Resources -HUGE!

Chamber Of Comm. Information:

http://chamber-of-commerce.com/
- International Chamber of Commerce Directory

http://www.chamberofcommerce.com/
- World Chamber of Commerce Directory

http://www.uschamber.com/Chambers/Chamber+Directory/default.htm
- US Chamber of Commerce Directory


    АWriters Web Pagesр   рWeb Pages that offer help and writer resources. I add more as I find them. Includes most major genres, even though I don't mess with them. Maybe they will help you!


General Writing -

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Creative_Writing/
- Yahoos Creative Writing Guide

http://www.writing-world.com/fiction/greenway6.html
- Writing World; Artical On Good Dialouge.

http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/HistMed/HOMCourse/production/Handouts/tips.PDF 
- A File On The History Of Western Medicine And How To Write About It Correctly.

http://www.masterfreelancer.com/resources.html
- Resource links. Mostly for Freelance.

http://www.weballey.net/links/General/Writing/
- More resource links.

http://www.writingfix.com/
- Writing Fix. Good Resources, Activities, Ect.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Writers_Resources/Style_Guides/
- Resources, Resources, Resources!

http://www.thewritegallery.com/
- Good Stuff.

http://www.writers.com/
- Another Good One.

http://e-writers.net/
- Good Stuff!

http://www.powa.org/
- Paradigm Online - Grammar, Usage, Ect. Help

http://www.writerswrite.com/writinglinks/
- More Resources

http://www.burningvoid.com/users/heather/writing/resources.html
- More Resouces

http://www.quintcareers.com/writing/
- Resources

http://www.dictionary.com/writing/

http://garbl.home.attbi.com/writing/

http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/links.html

http://web.mit.edu/uaa/www/writing/links/

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/resources.html

Children's Writing -

http://write4kids.com/
- Resources for writing for kids.

http://www.howtowriteachildrensbook.com/

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Children_s/Writing/Writing_for_Children/

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Children_s/Writing/

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storcont.html

http://www3.sympatico.ca/ltilander/kidex.htm

http://www.wordpool.co.uk/wfc/wfc.htm

http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/writingforkids.htm

http://www.aaronshep.com/kidwriter/Business.html

http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/1104/write1.html

http://www.writing-world.com/children/


Romance -

http://www.romancenotes.com/write_romance.html
- Resources

http://www.hackman-adams.com/articles/romance.htm
- More Resources

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/8584/genres/romance.html
- Yep. More.

http://www.historicalromancewriters.com/tower/resources.cfm
- Historical Romance Resources

Horror -

http://www.horror.org
- Horror Writers Association

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/8584/genres/horror.html
- Horror Writing Resources

http://horror.onlinewritingworkshop.com/resources.shtml
- More Horror Writing Resouces

True Crime/Mystery -

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/index.html - The Thrilling Detective 
http://www.plotswithguns.com/ - Plots With Guns
http://www.truecrimefanatic.com/ - True Crime Fanatic
http://www.copsnwriters.com/ - Cops n' Writers
http://www.zott.com/mysforum/ - Mystery Writers Forum
http://www.forwriters.com/ - For Writers
http://www.poewar.com/articles/writing_your_mystery.htm - 10 Tips For Mystery Writers

Fantasy/Sci-Fic  -

http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Writers_Resources/Fiction/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/
- Googles Directory

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/4905/
- Fantasy Resources

http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/workshop/resources.html
- More Resources

http://www.canauthors.org/links/genre.html
- More!

Westerns -

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/8584/genres/western.html
- Resources

http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/Writing/links.htm
- Small Section of Western Resource Links 

http://e-writers.net/westerns.html 
- Resources      