When writing bios, specifics are your friend. For instance, under āDislikesā I almost always see some variation of āMean people, stupid people, bullies, bigots, etcā The thing is, almost EVERYONE dislikes theseā¦but also many people have very different definitions of what qualifies as each one. For instance, the average person has a very different conception of what ābigotryā looks like than someone who is active in the social justice scene; they tend to imagine large and overt acts of direct bigotry, rather than small or āinvisibleā discriminations. And to some people, ābigotryā is things like affirmative action or women not dating them. Now, that may be stupid, but itās their perception and it says something distinct about them that helps you imagine better what kind of person this is. Speaking of stupid, what someone considers āstupidityā is a very personal thing, with an even wider range. To some people, simple spelling mistakes in the age of autocorrect are the height of stupidity, while other people find it stupid to be overly pedantic about such things. In fact, the things that this character considers āstupidā might not be stupid at all to the person reading it! What someone considers āstupidā can say a whole lot about them, so putting down that they just dislike āstupid peopleā or āstupidityā is not only unhelpfully vague and generic, it misses out on a chance to really give a sense of who your character is through what their pet peeves are. It tells me a lot more about someone if she canāt stand conspiracy theorists, climate change deniers, and Creationists than if her bio just said she didnāt like āpeople who believe dumb thingsā
