Biography Studio
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The best way to understand what Biography Studio produces is to see it. Below you will find a before and after example of the editorial process, and a complete sample biography you can download and keep.
Before and after: the editorial process
This is what happens when someone speaks their answer aloud and chooses the editing option.
The question: What is the first home you actually remember, and what stands out about it?
As spoken
First home I remember is my home at 7 Oak Drive. It's the home that I grew up in. My mum and dad's. Built that themselves and it was probably completed a year or so before I was born because my sister who's two years older than me was born while they were living in a static caravan on site while it was being built. I can kind of reflect back and remember bits and pieces through. Different photographs and stuff but there's a I do have a couple of kind of clear. Things in my head at different stages because I mean I lived there until I was probably I think I'll moved out for the first time when I was 22 when I moved to 93 Tannet Road. At Oak drive you used to walking through the front door and then to the left would be the living room and that had a big bay window or you know a quite a tall window overlooking the woods opposite and then another area was kind of on the other side of the very Valley so you could look out of the window And you just be looking at the woods stretching into the valley and then up the other side to another kind of area where there were loads of houses that people used to live in So it was just like a really nice place to to kind of sit and gays I suppose gays at the woods but then there 'd also be people are maybe walking on the other side of the valley in the distance so always something going on there. And I used to sit on the sofa listening to music for I would blast it out You know when Dad was at work I'd sneak into his record collection and listen to his Queen records or Elvis or something II used to spend hours sat listening to music on the sofa and looking out there so just remember you know I spent a lot a lot of time there and then our TV was there so used to you know being there watching cartoons, or I'd grab my big sack of Lego and play with it in the lounge in front of the TV So we spent a lot of time in the lounge. going back to the front door again straight in front of you pass the living room would be that kitchen and we used to have like I guess it's a kind of farmhouse kitchen table in there with like a bench seat around the corner and. Yeah I remember. And then there were like cork tiles on the wall behind the kitchen bet. My earliest memory of the kitchen that was there was sort of like blue grey kind of I suppose it was like a wood effect melamine melamine. Cabinets. And then upstairs. There was my bedroom my sister's bedroom I'm on them and Dad's bedroom my bedroom was like the smallest one over the top of the garage and when I was young that Primary School I had like a really cool cabin bed. Yeah I had a cabin beds with. Some like some like double doors underneath while I used to be able to store my junk and that's where I said that there was a monkey living under my bed and then I had a built built in desk and that room just remained the same all the way through. Yeah I mean I remember being in there with my first proper girlfriend so that was when I was like 18 19 and I still have my cabin bed when my sister moved to university I moved into her room and I think it may have even been one I moved out that Mum and Dad kind of like ripped out the cabin bed and stuff and just turned it into a kind of guest room with a single bed in there. The way I remember that bedroom in my head is it was painted blue. Are you still love playing in there I'd be up there with my lego or you know I remember one time that I particularly remember my being in my bedroom was when I was grounded for a whole month and I ended up building a massive kind of Castle and cutting all of the different characters out and stuff out of cardboard and making a really good job of that. The other thing about it was that used to have a little window that overlooks my bed level overlook the field next door and when I was growing up that always be kids out in the field playing and you know what I have that feeling of coming in during the summer nights where it was quite balmy and warm and you'd sleep with the window open and I'd still hear the kids outside playing cuz you know you never wanted to come in when it was time to come in on those kind of days and you'd still have some mates out there. Oh they were. and that's the thing that sticks out the most I think about that house is like if I close my eyes and just think back I can feel I can just see myself or feel myself being tucked up in bed next to that window overlooking the field And it would be a warm summer and it would the smell of like cut grass would be in the air And I'll be jealous because I'll be in bed and there were still people outside playing They were such happy times like being a. Small kid living there magic.
After editing
The first home I remember is 7 Oak Drive, the house my mum and dad built themselves. It was probably completed about a year before I was born. My sister, who is two years older than me, was actually born while they were still living in a static caravan on site during the build. I lived there until I was 22, when I moved to 93 Tannet Road.
Walking through the front door, the living room was to the left. It had a tall window overlooking the woods opposite, with the valley stretching away below and houses dotted up the other side. You could sit and gaze at the woods, and in the distance there would often be people walking on the far side of the valley. I spent hours on that sofa listening to music. When Dad was at work, I would sneak into his record collection and put on his Queen or Elvis records. The TV was in there too, so it was where we watched cartoons, and I would drag in my big sack of Lego and play on the floor. We spent a lot of time in that room.
Back at the front door, straight ahead past the living room was the kitchen. We had a farmhouse-style table in there with a bench seat around the corner. My earliest memory of it is cork tiles on the wall and blue-grey wood-effect melamine cabinets.
Upstairs there were three bedrooms: mine, my sister's, and Mum and Dad's. My room was the smallest, over the top of the garage. When I was at primary school I had a cabin bed with double doors underneath where I stored my junk. I was convinced there was a monkey living under the bed. There was also a built-in desk. The room stayed pretty much the same all the way through childhood. I remember still being in there with my first proper girlfriend when I was 18 or 19, still with the cabin bed. When my sister went to university I moved into her room, and I think it was around the time I eventually moved out that Mum and Dad cleared my old room and turned it into a guest room with a single bed.
My bedroom was painted blue. I loved playing in there. I remember one particular stretch when I was grounded for a whole month and I built a massive cardboard castle, cutting out all the characters and doing a really good job of it. The room had a small window at bed level overlooking the field next door, and growing up there were always kids out there playing.
That window is what I remember most about that house. On warm summer evenings, I would be tucked up in bed with the window open, the smell of cut grass in the air, listening to the other kids still outside. You never wanted to come in on nights like that. There would still be mates out in the field, and I would be lying there jealous. Those were such happy times. Magic, really.
The voice is the same. The clarity is different. Every specific detail is there: the address, the cabin bed, the cork tiles, the kids in the field. What the editorial process removes is the scaffolding of speech — the hesitations, the repeated phrases, the moments where thought and memory arrive at the same time.
This is what your answers will look like if you choose editing. You will recognise yourself in every line.
The sample biography: Winston Churchill
To show what a complete Biography Studio book looks like — the layout, the chapter structure, the question and answer format across a full set of chapters — we produced a mock biography using Winston Churchill as our subject.
Every question came from the Biography Studio framework. Every answer was drawn from the historical record. The result shows exactly what your finished book will look like: chapter headings, question headings, answers beneath them, photographs, page numbers, and the case-bound hardback format.
What you are looking at
The Churchill biography uses Reflections + Chronicle + Wisdom — all thirteen chapters. The Q&A format is exactly as it appears in a real customer book. The layout, typography, and binding are identical to what you will receive.
Your book will look like this. The words inside it will be entirely your own.