| 18.18% | Adverbs in dialogue tags | Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs | | totalTags | 5 | | adverbTagCount | 1 | | adverbTags | | 0 | "she said softly [softly]" |
| | dialogueSentences | 11 | | tagDensity | 0.455 | | leniency | 0.909 | | rawRatio | 0.2 | | effectiveRatio | 0.182 | |
| 60.28% | AI-ism adverb frequency | Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked) | | wordCount | 1007 | | totalAiIsmAdverbs | 8 | | found | | 0 | | | 1 | | | 2 | | | 3 | | | 4 | | | 5 | | adverb | "barely above a whisper" | | count | 1 |
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| | highlights | | 0 | "slightly" | | 1 | "softly" | | 2 | "cautiously" | | 3 | "hesitantly" | | 4 | "suddenly" | | 5 | "barely above a whisper" |
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| 100.00% | AI-ism character names | Target: 0 AI-default names (17 tracked, −20% each) | | codexExemptions | (empty) | | found | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | AI-ism location names | Target: 0 AI-default location names (33 tracked, −20% each) | | codexExemptions | (empty) | | found | (empty) | |
| 0.00% | AI-ism word frequency | Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked) | | wordCount | 1007 | | totalAiIsms | 39 | | found | | 0 | | | 1 | | | 2 | | | 3 | | | 4 | | | 5 | | | 6 | | | 7 | | | 8 | | | 9 | | | 10 | | | 11 | | | 12 | | | 13 | | | 14 | | | 15 | | | 16 | | | 17 | | | 18 | | | 19 | | | 20 | | | 21 | | | 22 | | | 23 | | | 24 | | | 25 | | | 26 | |
| | highlights | | 0 | "warmth" | | 1 | "otherworldly" | | 2 | "pulse" | | 3 | "flickered" | | 4 | "whisper" | | 5 | "pulsed" | | 6 | "anticipation" | | 7 | "rhythmic" | | 8 | "throb" | | 9 | "echo" | | 10 | "shimmered" | | 11 | "intrigue" | | 12 | "footsteps" | | 13 | "echoes" | | 14 | "peril" | | 15 | "crystalline" | | 16 | "comforting" | | 17 | "palpable" | | 18 | "symphony" | | 19 | "flicker" | | 20 | "structure" | | 21 | "electric" | | 22 | "foreboding" | | 23 | "tangible" | | 24 | "weight" | | 25 | "stomach" | | 26 | "sense of" |
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| 100.00% | Cliché density | Target: ≤1 cliche(s) per 800-word window | | totalCliches | 1 | | maxInWindow | 1 | | found | | 0 | | label | "eyes widened/narrowed" | | count | 1 |
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| 97.22% | Emotion telling (show vs. tell) | Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling | | emotionTells | 2 | | narrationSentences | 60 | | matches | | 0 | "s with anticipation" | | 1 | "c with anticipation" |
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| 0.00% | Filter word density | Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words | | filterCount | 0 | | hedgeCount | 6 | | narrationSentences | 60 | | filterMatches | (empty) | | hedgeMatches | | |
| 100.00% | Gibberish response detection | Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words) | | analyzedSentences | 64 | | gibberishSentences | 0 | | adjustedGibberishSentences | 0 | | longSentenceCount | 0 | | runOnParagraphCount | 0 | | giantParagraphCount | 0 | | wordSaladCount | 0 | | repetitionLoopCount | 0 | | controlTokenCount | 0 | | maxSentenceWordsSeen | 39 | | ratio | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Markdown formatting overuse | Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting | | markdownSpans | 0 | | markdownWords | 0 | | totalWords | 987 | | ratio | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks) | Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks | | totalAttributions | 6 | | unquotedAttributions | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Name drop frequency | Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words | | totalMentions | 23 | | wordCount | 926 | | uniqueNames | 10 | | maxNameDensity | 0.86 | | worstName | "Aurora" | | maxWindowNameDensity | 1.5 | | worstWindowName | "Aurora" | | discoveredNames | | Carter | 1 | | Heartstone | 2 | | Pendant | 1 | | Varga | 1 | | Fae | 2 | | Grove | 1 | | Aurora | 8 | | Fae-Forged | 1 | | Blade | 1 | | Nyx | 5 |
| | persons | | 0 | "Carter" | | 1 | "Varga" | | 2 | "Aurora" | | 3 | "Blade" | | 4 | "Nyx" |
| | places | | | globalScore | 1 | | windowScore | 1 | |
| 63.79% | Narrator intent-glossing | Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns | | analyzedSentences | 58 | | glossingSentenceCount | 2 | | matches | | 0 | "throb that seemed to echo the distant, subtle hum of the environment" | | 1 | "vine that seemed to pulse beneath her touch" |
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| 98.68% | "Not X but Y" pattern overuse | Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words | | totalMatches | 1 | | per1kWords | 1.013 | | wordCount | 987 | | matches | | 0 | "Not uncomfortable, but enough to raise her hackles" |
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| 100.00% | Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding) | Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses | | thatCount | 0 | | totalSentences | 64 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 21.67% | Paragraph length variance | Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts | | totalParagraphs | 18 | | mean | 54.83 | | std | 12.38 | | cv | 0.226 | | sampleLengths | | 0 | 67 | | 1 | 75 | | 2 | 66 | | 3 | 67 | | 4 | 62 | | 5 | 58 | | 6 | 50 | | 7 | 61 | | 8 | 64 | | 9 | 58 | | 10 | 58 | | 11 | 44 | | 12 | 48 | | 13 | 42 | | 14 | 44 | | 15 | 42 | | 16 | 22 | | 17 | 59 |
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| 99.42% | Passive voice overuse | Target: ≤2% passive sentences | | passiveCount | 1 | | totalSentences | 60 | | matches | | |
| 100.00% | Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse | Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs | | pastProgressiveCount | 0 | | totalVerbs | 157 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 0.00% | Em-dash & semicolon overuse | Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons | | emDashCount | 21 | | semicolonCount | 0 | | flaggedSentences | 18 | | totalSentences | 64 | | ratio | 0.281 | | matches | | 0 | "Aurora Carter’s bright blue eyes widened slightly—the moment was colder than expected, yet somehow imbued with an unnatural warmth that prickled along her skin." | | 1 | "The faint violet glow of their eyes flickered as they shifted into a more solid silhouette, their form towering and vague—less a shadow and more a suggestion of darkness made flesh." | | 2 | "The landscape stretched before them in impossible ways—an endless expanse of thick, luminescent flora, wildflowers blooming in shades that defied earthly palette: iridescent blues, shimmering golds, and translucent whites that shimmered like frost under a strange, amber sky." | | 3 | "Trees—ancient, twisted, and draped with trailing vines—groaned softly in a breeze that only they seemed to feel." | | 4 | "She was silent—always silent—her footsteps leaving no trace on the mossy ground." | | 5 | "Nyx’s shadowy form rippled again, and they crouched, fingers reaching toward a strange, crystalline growth protruding from the ground—a jagged shard glowing with internal light, flickering like a heartbeat." | | 6 | "Aurora shivered, drawing the Fae-Forged Blade from her coat—a slender, moonlit sliver of moonsilver, cold to the touch as always but oddly comforting in her palm." | | 7 | "She had no illusions about what awaited them deeper in, but her instincts fired—sharp and insistent." | | 8 | "Its leaves were thick and rubbery, mottled with streaks of iridescence—almost like veins of molten glass." | | 9 | "Aurora’s mind stirred with questions she knew she shouldn’t ask aloud—the dissonance here was palpable, a symphony of ancient power and unseen secrets." | | 10 | "The being of living shadow seemed to sense the imbalance—a ripple in the fabric of this realm—and their faint glow brightened minutely." | | 11 | "Shadowy wisps coiled among the flora, like tendrils seeking something—perhaps her." | | 12 | "The landscape continued to shift—bizarre, spectacular, and unnatural." | | 13 | "Her gaze flickered upward as she caught the faint shimmer of something beyond the horizon—a structure, half-hidden by shadows but unmistakably deliberate." | | 14 | "The air thickened, electric with anticipation and foreboding—an almost tangible weight pressing against her mind." | | 15 | "And then, in the distance, a faint, haunting melody drifted—a chorus of voices, ethereal and distant." | | 16 | "Every step drew them further into the unknown—toward the edges of things they could only begin to understand." | | 17 | "And yet, beneath it all, a faint sense of familiarity lurked—the recognition that whatever awaited lay just beyond the veil of their perception, waiting to be unveiled." |
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| 88.99% | Purple prose (modifier overload) | Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking | | wordCount | 948 | | adjectiveStacks | 0 | | stackExamples | (empty) | | adverbCount | 46 | | adverbRatio | 0.04852320675105485 | | lyAdverbCount | 23 | | lyAdverbRatio | 0.024261603375527425 | |
| 100.00% | Repeated phrase echo | Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2) | | totalSentences | 64 | | echoCount | 0 | | echoWords | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Sentence length variance | Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts | | totalSentences | 64 | | mean | 15.42 | | std | 6.78 | | cv | 0.44 | | sampleLengths | | 0 | 18 | | 1 | 24 | | 2 | 8 | | 3 | 17 | | 4 | 14 | | 5 | 31 | | 6 | 12 | | 7 | 18 | | 8 | 13 | | 9 | 19 | | 10 | 16 | | 11 | 18 | | 12 | 38 | | 13 | 17 | | 14 | 12 | | 15 | 19 | | 16 | 12 | | 17 | 9 | | 18 | 13 | | 19 | 9 | | 20 | 15 | | 21 | 25 | | 22 | 18 | | 23 | 29 | | 24 | 21 | | 25 | 26 | | 26 | 16 | | 27 | 19 | | 28 | 19 | | 29 | 14 | | 30 | 15 | | 31 | 16 | | 32 | 10 | | 33 | 8 | | 34 | 23 | | 35 | 10 | | 36 | 7 | | 37 | 13 | | 38 | 22 | | 39 | 13 | | 40 | 10 | | 41 | 6 | | 42 | 11 | | 43 | 10 | | 44 | 3 | | 45 | 10 | | 46 | 4 | | 47 | 10 | | 48 | 8 | | 49 | 30 |
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| 53.13% | Sentence opener variety | Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers | | consecutiveRepeats | 6 | | diversityRatio | 0.375 | | totalSentences | 64 | | uniqueOpeners | 24 | |
| 55.56% | Adverb-first sentence starts | Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb | | adverbCount | 1 | | totalSentences | 60 | | matches | | 0 | "Suddenly, a faint hum began," |
| | ratio | 0.017 | |
| 66.67% | Pronoun-first sentence starts | Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun | | pronounCount | 23 | | totalSentences | 60 | | matches | | 0 | "They stepped through the ancient" | | 1 | "Their fingers, if they could" | | 2 | "She had been told few" | | 3 | "Her hand instinctively brushed the" | | 4 | "She was silent—always silent—her footsteps" | | 5 | "she whispered to herself, voice" | | 6 | "Their eyes roved over the" | | 7 | "Their textures shimmered hesitantly, as" | | 8 | "Their voice, a whisper on" | | 9 | "She had no illusions about" | | 10 | "They moved forward, their feet" | | 11 | "Its leaves were thick and" | | 12 | "She kept her voice calm," | | 13 | "they whispered, voice like wind" | | 14 | "She tightened her grip on" | | 15 | "Her instincts flared." | | 16 | "she said softly, voice steady" | | 17 | "Her gaze flickered upward as" | | 18 | "It called to her as" | | 19 | "she murmured, voice barely more" |
| | ratio | 0.383 | |
| 0.00% | Subject-first sentence starts | Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject | | subjectCount | 56 | | totalSentences | 60 | | matches | | 0 | "They stepped through the ancient" | | 1 | "Aurora Carter’s bright blue eyes" | | 2 | "The world beyond the stones" | | 3 | "Time felt different here, a" | | 4 | "Nyx moved first, their shadow" | | 5 | "The faint violet glow of" | | 6 | "Nyx murmured, voice like a" | | 7 | "Their fingers, if they could" | | 8 | "Aurora hesitated, clutching the Heartstone" | | 9 | "She had been told few" | | 10 | "Her hand instinctively brushed the" | | 11 | "The pendant pulsed again, a" | | 12 | "The landscape stretched before them" | | 13 | "Trees—ancient, twisted, and draped with" | | 14 | "The air smelled faintly of" | | 15 | "Isolde Varga’s silver hair shimmered" | | 16 | "She was silent—always silent—her footsteps" | | 17 | "The Fae Grove had not" | | 18 | "she whispered to herself, voice" | | 19 | "Their eyes roved over the" |
| | ratio | 0.933 | |
| 0.00% | Subordinate conjunction sentence starts | Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction | | subConjCount | 0 | | totalSentences | 60 | | matches | (empty) | | ratio | 0 | |
| 0.00% | Technical jargon density | Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns | | analyzedSentences | 46 | | technicalSentenceCount | 11 | | matches | | 0 | "They stepped through the ancient oak standing stones, the air immediately changing as if reality itself had shivered." | | 1 | "Aurora Carter’s bright blue eyes widened slightly—the moment was colder than expected, yet somehow imbued with an unnatural warmth that prickled along her skin." | | 2 | "Time felt different here, a strange slow pulse that made the slightest movement seem deliberate and heavy." | | 3 | "The pendant pulsed again, a rhythmic throb that seemed to echo the distant, subtle hum of the environment." | | 4 | "The landscape stretched before them in impossible ways—an endless expanse of thick, luminescent flora, wildflowers blooming in shades that defied earthly palett…" | | 5 | "Aurora’s gaze fixed on a cluster of alien blossoms, their petals fluttering even without wind, somehow alive in a way that made her skin crawl." | | 6 | "Their textures shimmered hesitantly, as if they were barely contained beneath the surface of this world’s fragile veneer." | | 7 | "They moved forward, their feet sinking softly into a pool of bioluminescent moss that shimmered with their every step." | | 8 | "The glow cast strange, shifting shadows that danced, elongating and contracting like living things." | | 9 | "Aurora reached out, fingertips brushing a thick vine that seemed to pulse beneath her touch." | | 10 | "Some of the trees seemed to bend in impossible angles, their bark mottled with luminescent markings that twisted in the dim light, hinting at histories not mean…" |
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| 0.00% | Useless dialogue additions | Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments | | totalTags | 5 | | uselessAdditionCount | 2 | | matches | | 0 | "she said softly, voice steady but cautious" | | 1 | "she murmured, voice barely more than a breath" |
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| 0.00% | Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy) | Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags | | totalTags | 5 | | fancyCount | 4 | | fancyTags | | 0 | "Nyx murmured (murmur)" | | 1 | "she whispered (whisper)" | | 2 | "they whispered (whisper)" | | 3 | "she murmured (murmur)" |
| | dialogueSentences | 11 | | tagDensity | 0.455 | | leniency | 0.909 | | rawRatio | 0.8 | | effectiveRatio | 0.727 | |