8. An apparatus comprising: a processor; a display; and one or more computer-readable media maintaining instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: identifying in a written work a first character identity having at least one first character identity attribute and a second character identity having at least one second character identity attribute, at least one of the at least one first character identity attribute or the at least one second character identity attribute comprising at least one of an approximate age of the first or second character identity, an ethnicity of the first or second character identity, an era in which the first or second character identity exists, or a socioeconomic class of the first or second character identity; associating a first graphical scheme with the first character identity based at least in part on the first character identity attribute; associating a second graphical scheme with the second character identity based at least in part on the second character identity attribute; and presenting, on the display, a first textual portion of the written work associated with the first character identity and a second textual portion of the written work associated with the second character identity, wherein the first textual portion is graphically distinguished from the second textual portion by the first graphical scheme associated with the first character identity and the second graphical scheme associated with the second character identity.
16. The apparatus as recited in claim 8 , wherein at least one of the associating the first graphical scheme or the associating the second graphical scheme comprises presenting on the display, a plurality of selectable graphical schemes including at least one of the first graphical scheme or the second graphical scheme and receiving a user selection of at least one of the first graphical scheme or the second graphical scheme.