Run: 2026-02-17-01KHMRSA3Y4XBZNQAAA887C1BT

Run Details

Model:: Claude 3.5 Haiku
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Romance: separated couple reunites
Duration:: 8.0s
Cost:: $0.001959

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 knock came three times, sharp and staccato. Aurora knew that rhythm. Her breath caught in her throat, fingers freezing mid-scroll on her phone.

Ptolemy, Eva's tabby cat, lifted his head from the pile of research scrolls, ears twitching toward the door. The flat smelled of old books and curry from the restaurant below, a familiar comfort that now felt suffocating.

Another knock. Harder this time.

She knew who it was before she saw him. Lucien Moreau didn't make social calls without purpose.

Aurora crossed the small flat, past stacks of academic journals and half-translated manuscripts. Her hand hesitated on the deadbolt — one of three securing Eva's door — before turning it with deliberate slowness.

Lucien stood precisely as she remembered: immaculate charcoal suit, platinum hair slicked back, those mismatched eyes — one amber, one black — studying her with surgical precision. His ivory-handled cane rested against his leg, concealing the thin blade she knew was hidden within.

"You look well," he said. Not a question. A statement delivered in that precise French-accented English.

Her fingers unconsciously traced the small crescent-shaped scar on her left wrist, an old nervous habit. "What do you want, Luc?"

A ghost of a smile. The kind that didn't reach those extraordinary eyes. "May I come in?"

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.0000%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	1
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)

53.2710%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

214

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"precisely"
count	1

highlights

0	"precisely"

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	214
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	19
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Filter word density

Target: ≤12% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount	0
hedgeCount	0
narrationSentences	19
filterMatches	(empty)
hedgeMatches	(empty)

100.0000%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤10% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"knew that rhythm"

93.1328%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

23.67

std

11.26

0.476

sampleLengths

0	24
1	37
2	5
3	17
4	33
5	43
6	16
7	21
8	17

98.2456%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤5% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"was hidden"

100.0000%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤10% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	30
matches	(empty)

82.0000%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount

202

adjectiveStacks

stackExamples

0	"small flat, past stacks"
1	"precise French-accented English."
2	"small crescent-shaped scar"

adverbCount

adverbRatio

0.01485148514851485

lyAdverbCount

lyAdverbRatio

0.009900990099009901

100.0000%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	21
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.0000%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

10.14

std

6.71

0.661

sampleLengths

0	8
1	4
2	12
3	18
4	19
5	2
6	3
7	9
8	8
9	13
10	20
11	27
12	16
13	5
14	3
15	8
16	16
17	5
18	5
19	8
20	4

100.0000%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	0
diversityRatio	0.6666666666666666
totalSentences	21
uniqueOpeners	14

100.0000%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤30% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags	1
fancyCount	0
fancyTags	(empty)

95.6853%