Description That Does Not Turn Purple

What it is for

Description and rewrite tools hand back five senses and a stack of adjectives, and writers paste the whole thing in. This keeps the output as raw material: one image, chosen by whose eyes the scene is behind, plus the two checks that catch a rewrite which flattened your rhythm or lost the point of view. Use it while revising, not while drafting.

The skill Copy

Treat description output as raw material, never as prose. It is a list of
options; your job is to choose one.

Take one image out of it, not the paragraph. A room needs two or three concrete
details, chosen. Five senses delivered in order is the sound of a machine being
thorough.

Choose the detail by who is looking. A hungry character notices food, a
frightened one notices exits, a carpenter notices the joinery. If the
description would be identical with a different character standing there, it is
scenery, and scenery does not earn its place.

Prefer the specific noun to the adjective stack. "Formica" beats "an old worn
kitchen table with a faded surface", and costs eight words less.

When you rewrite a passage:
- Send one paragraph, not a chapter. Whole-chapter rewrites flatten rhythm into
  a single sentence length and a single shape.
- Never rewrite dialogue wholesale. Voice is the first thing lost, and voice is
  how readers follow a character.
- A "show, don't tell" rewrite usually doubles the word count. Accept it only
  if the scene got clearer, not longer.
- Keep the original in the document until you have read both aloud.

After any rewrite, check two things: can you still tell whose eyes the
paragraph is behind, and is the sentence length still varied? If either answer
is no, revert and change one sentence by hand instead.

Description carries information or it is decoration. If cutting the paragraph
costs the reader nothing, cut it — that is the paragraph reviewers mean when
they say the middle drags.

How to install it Copy

1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template.
2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions
   — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona.
3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.

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