Run: 2026-02-17-01KHMRS26NFNRPJQG8TSQH0ECS

Run Details

Model:: Claude 3.5 Haiku
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Romance: separated couple reunites
Duration:: 8.1s
Cost:: $0.002055

Model input

System

You are an expert novelist with a gift for vivid, immersive prose. You write in tight third-person limited point of view with a strong narrative voice. Your prose is clean, precise, and engaging — you favor strong verbs, concrete details, and natural-sounding dialogue.

You will be given a story bible (codex) containing canonical details about characters, locations, items, and lore. Use these details to ground your writing in the established world. Stay consistent with the codex.

Write only the prose of the scene. Do not include titles, chapter headings, markdown formatting, or any commentary before or after the scene.

User/Human

<codex>
<character id="4412" name="Aurora Carter" aliases="Rory, Laila, Aurora, Carter, Malphora" pronouns="she/her" species="Human" storyRole="Protagonist">
  <eyeColor>bright blue</eyeColor>
  <hair>straight shoulder-length black</hair>
  <height>5'6"</height>
  <age>25</age>
  <scar>small crescent-shaped scar on her left wrist from a childhood accident</scar>
  <description>Aurora, referred to by her friends as Rory, is cool-headed, intelligent, and known for quick out-of-the-box thinking.</description>
  <backstory>Born in Cardiff to an Irish barrister father (Brendan Carter) and Welsh teacher mother (Jennifer Carter née Ellis), Rory reluctantly pursued Pre-Law at Cardiff University. She fled to London at the behest of her childhood friend Eva after leaving an abusive ex named Evan. By day, Rory works part-time as a delivery person for Yu-Fei Cheung's Golden Empress restaurant. She lives in a flat above Silas' bar.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="4415" name="Lucien Moreau" aliases="Lucien, Luc, the Frenchman" pronouns="he/him" species="Half-Demon" storyRole="Ally">
  <eyeColor>heterochromatic — one amber, one black</eyeColor>
  <hair>slicked-back platinum blond</hair>
  <height>5'11"</height>
  <age>32</age>
  <cane>ivory-handled cane that conceals a thin blade</cane>
  <dress>tailored charcoal suits</dress>
  <description>An impeccably dressed fixer and information broker in London's supernatural underworld. He speaks four languages fluently.</description>
  <backstory>Born in Marseille to a human mother and a demon father from the realm of Avaros.</backstory>
</character>

<location id="858" name="Eva's Flat" aliases="Eva's place, the flat on Brick Lane" realm="Earth">
  <cat>tabby cat named Ptolemy</cat>
  <security>three deadbolts on the front door</security>
  <description>A cramped one-bedroom flat above a curry house on Brick Lane, East London. Every surface is covered with books, scrolls, and research notes.</description>
</location>
</codex>

Write a fully fleshed out scene of at least 1000 words in the romance genre.

Two people who parted on complicated terms are forced together again when one shows up unannounced at the other's flat. There's history between them — attraction, hurt, and things left unsaid. Write the scene from the moment the door opens.

Use the codex entries above as your world reference for characters and setting.
Only include the prose of the scene without any markdown or commentary.

Model response

The door handle rattled before Aurora could finish her second cup of tea. She froze, the ceramic mug halfway to her lips, her bright blue eyes locked on the entrance to Eva's cramped Brick Lane flat. Ptolemy, the tabby cat, arched his back and hissed softly from his perch on a stack of ancient scrolls.

Three deadbolts. Eva was meticulous about security.

But someone had a key.

The door swung open, and Lucien Moreau filled the frame. His platinum blond hair was impeccably slicked back, a sharp contrast to the charcoal suit that fit him like a second skin. One amber eye, one black, swept the room with practiced precision.

"Hello, Rory," he said.

Her breath caught. Three years. Three years since Cardiff. Since the night everything fell apart.

"What are you doing here?" Her voice was steady. Cool. Precisely the opposite of the tornado of emotions spinning inside her.

Lucien's lips—those lips she remembered too well—curved into the barest hint of a smile. His ivory-handled cane tapped against the wooden floor as he stepped inside, uninvited but looking entirely at home among Eva's chaotic research.

"Eva asked me to check on some materials while she's away," he said. "Interesting that you're here and not delivering dumplings for Yu-Fei."

A jab. Deliberate. She recognized the technique—information gathering disguised as casual conversation. Some things never changed.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.0000%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	2
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)

13.0435%

AI-ism adverb frequency

Target: <1% AI-ism adverbs (57 tracked)

wordCount

230

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"precisely"
count	1

adverb	"softly"
count	1

highlights

0	"precisely"
1	"softly"

100.0000%

AI-ism character names

Target: 0 AI-default names (17 tracked, −20% each)

codexExemptions	(empty)
found	(empty)

100.0000%

AI-ism location names

Target: 0 AI-default location names (33 tracked, −20% each)

codexExemptions	(empty)
found	(empty)

100.0000%

AI-ism word frequency

Target: <1% AI-ism words (140 tracked)

wordCount	230
totalAiIsms	0
found	(empty)
highlights	(empty)

100.0000%

Cliche density

Target: ≤1 cliche(s) per 800-word window

totalCliches	0
maxInWindow	0
found	(empty)
highlights	(empty)

100.0000%

Emotion telling (show vs. tell)

Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling

emotionTells	0
narrationSentences	24
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Filter word density

Target: ≤12% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount	0
hedgeCount	0
narrationSentences	24
filterMatches	(empty)
hedgeMatches	(empty)

100.0000%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤10% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"\"Interesting that you're"

100.0000%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

22.5

std

16.27

0.723

sampleLengths

0	55
1	7
2	5
3	43
4	4
5	15
6	21
7	36
8	23
9	16

100.0000%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤5% passive sentences

passiveCount	0
totalSentences	24
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤10% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	28
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking

wordCount	201
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	8
adverbRatio	0.03980099502487562
lyAdverbCount	4
lyAdverbRatio	0.01990049751243781

100.0000%

Repeated phrase echo

Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2)

totalSentences	25
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.0000%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

std

6.72

0.746

sampleLengths

0	13
1	23
2	19
3	2
4	5
5	5
6	10
7	22
8	11
9	4
10	3
11	2
12	4
13	6
14	9
15	1
16	11
17	14
18	22
19	13
20	10
21	2
22	1
23	9
24	4

96.0000%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	1
diversityRatio	0.76
totalSentences	25
uniqueOpeners	19

100.0000%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤30% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags	2
fancyCount	0
fancyTags	(empty)

94.6496%