Highlighting whole lines depending on keywords

Bonjour,

I wish to use Vim to write a book. Plain text. But I am new to Vim...

I want this book to be divided in "blocks", i.e. lines in Vim (some
quite long, some very short like in a dialog between friends). Each
block will correspond to a character (for example John, Chris and
Emily) and that character only .You might thus have in succession :
- John's "stream of consciousness"
- Emily speaking on the phone
- Chris interrupting both with a question
- etc...
It is important to note that the name of characters will not be
indicated like in a play, but that I intend to place keywords such as
[John] at the end of the lines, indications that I shall wipe out when
it's finished. I want these keywords to allow me to highlight text
differently, depending on who is concerned, in order to have a global
view of their succession, like in a score, while the book is a WIP.

My settings (MacVim, latest Vim release) are background=dark in
my .vimrc

I would like to have for example :
- John (the main character) in "standard" lines, i.e. without
highlighting : grey foreground (font : I hope I am not mistaken)
- Emily : light blue foreground
- Chris : light green foreground
- etc...

My questions are :
1. How do I create the list of the 3 keywords [John] [Emily] [Chris] ?
2. How do I highlight their lines differently, depending on the
keyword I shall place at the end of the line ? And, btw, what happens
if I put 2 keywords [John][Chris] by mistake ?

Thanks in advance for the hand-holding.
NB : Your help does not mean you will endorse any responsibility in
the quality of the book ...

ThG

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