Insight Colors by node

When you run insights on your writing, the results appear as colored highlights overlaid on your text. Each color means something specific. ## The color system **Purple — Foreshadowing** Purple highlights mark moments that set up future events. A detail mentioned early that pays off later. A character's offhand comment that becomes significant. An image that recurs with different meaning. What a purple highlight tells you: this passage is connected to something later in the text. The connection might be intentional (you planted it) or accidental (your subconscious did it for you). Either way, the reader will register it, even if they don't notice consciously. How to act on it: if the foreshadowing is intentional, check that it's subtle enough. Foreshadowing that calls attention to itself isn't foreshadowing — it's a spoiler. If it's accidental, decide whether to strengthen it or remove it. Accidental foreshadowing is often the best kind, because it comes from the natural logic of the story. **Gold — Characters** Gold highlights mark character presence and development. Where a character is active, where they're mentioned, where they're developing, where they're static. What a gold highlight tells you: this character is doing something here — acting, speaking, being described, being thought about. Dense gold means the character dominates the section. Absence of gold means the character has dropped out. Both are worth noticing. How to act on it: look for gaps. If a major character goes three chapters without gold, the reader is forgetting them. Look for clusters. If a minor character is getting too much gold, they might be stealing focus from the main arc. **Bronze — Interactions** Bronze marks character-to-character dynamics. Dialogue exchanges, conflicts, alliances, emotional transactions between specific people. What a bronze highlight tells you: two or more characters are engaging with each other here. The nature of the engagement — collaborative, antagonistic, tender, transactional — shows in the surrounding context. How to act on it: check that the interactions serve the relationships you're building. If two characters interact frequently but their relationship hasn't changed, the interactions might be spinning wheels. If two characters who should interact never get bronze highlights together, they might need a scene. **Blue — Scenes** Blue marks scene structure — openings, transitions, climactic moments, closings. The architecture of your narrative. What a blue highlight tells you: the AI has identified structural moments. Scene boundaries, shifts in time or place, moments where the narrative pivots. How to act on it: check that your scenes have shape. A scene should arrive, build, peak, and close. If the blue highlights show a long, unbroken section without structural markers, the scene might be wandering. If they're too frequent, the writing might be fragmented. **Yellow — Craft** Yellow marks writing technique — rhetorical devices, stylistic patterns, narrative choices the AI has noticed. What a yellow highlight tells you: you're doing something technically notable here. Extended metaphor, shifting point of view, unusual sentence structure, tonal modulation. The AI is pointing at your craft, not judging it. How to act on it: use these as mirrors. If yellow highlights a pattern you didn't know you were using (repeated sentence structures, consistent metaphor families), decide whether it's working for or against you. Conscious craft is better than accidental craft. ## How colors layer Passages can have multiple colors. A scene where two characters meet (bronze) at a location that foreshadows a later event (purple) using distinctive prose technique (yellow) will show all three. The layering tells you the passage is doing multiple things simultaneously — these are usually your strongest passages.