While searching for backgrounds ideas to inspire myself on, I found this. You select basic information like race and class and voilà , you get a randomly-generated background you can either pick up for a new character, or take several elements from it for a new or an existing one.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/more-character-options/pfbggen (//%22http://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/more-character-options/pfbggen%22)
Cool stuff. I like it. Will use it for ideas.
It'd be great if we had something similar for descriptions. I never know what to write, if I had a template, might make things easier for me.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1384390/backstory.html
another great source for your serious characters
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Something I thought was interesting for either new concepts or existing ones you want to reinvigorate, so I simply share this site here. To plan either alone or better, to plan a background story with another survivor.
http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/dnd/36plots.htm (//%22http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/dnd/36plots.htm%22)