Run: 2026-02-17-01KHMXS10WN5E9EZ91TTJSQ0B1

Run Details

Model:: Claude 3.5 Haiku
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Romance: separated couple reunites
Duration:: 9.9s
Cost:: $0.002303

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 sharp and sudden, three quick raps that cut through the ambient noise of Brick Lane's evening bustle. Eva didn't move from her desk, her fingers frozen mid-paragraph over a sprawling research document. Ptolemy, her tabby cat, lifted his head and yawned.

Another knock. Harder this time.

She knew that rhythm. Those precise, controlled strikes. Her breath caught.

When she opened the door, Lucien Moreau stood precisely three inches from the threshold, one hand resting casually on the ivory handle of his walking cane. His heterochromatic eyes — one amber, one black — swept over her with surgical precision.

"You weren't answering your messages," he said.

The words were neutral, but something underneath them thrummed with controlled tension. His platinum blond hair was impeccably slicked back, his charcoal suit unwrinkled despite whatever journey had brought him here.

Eva leaned against the doorframe. "I don't recall promising to be available on demand."

A ghost of a smile flickered across his lips. Not quite warmth. More like the memory of warmth. "May I come in?"

She stepped back, a deliberate invitation that wasn't quite welcome. Ptolemy watched their interaction with feline detachment, tail swishing slowly across a stack of ancient scrolls.

The flat was organized chaos — every surface covered in books, research notes, arcane artifacts balanced precariously between academic rigor and mystical possibility. Lucien moved with practiced grace, not touching anything but absorbing everything with those mismatched eyes.

"You look tired," he said.

It wasn't a question. It was an observation, clinical and precise.

Eva sat back at her desk, deliberately turning her chair to face him. "What do you want, Lucien?"

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)

0.0000%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

271

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"deliberately"
count	1

adverb	"precisely"
count	1

adverb	"slowly"
count	1

highlights

0	"deliberately"
1	"precisely"
2	"slowly"

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)

63.0996%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

271

totalAiIsms

found

word	"flickered"
count	1

highlights

0	"flickered"

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	25
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Filter word density

Target: ≤12% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount	0
hedgeCount	0
narrationSentences	25
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"

100.0000%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

std

13.33

0.635

sampleLengths

0	44
1	5
2	11
3	41
4	7
5	31
6	14
7	22
8	26
9	38
10	5
11	11
12	18

100.0000%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤5% passive sentences

passiveCount	0
totalSentences	25
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤10% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	40
matches	(empty)

88.4014%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	245
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	12
adverbRatio	0.04897959183673469
lyAdverbCount	6
lyAdverbRatio	0.024489795918367346

100.0000%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	28
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.0000%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

9.75

std

6.53

0.67

sampleLengths

0	20
1	15
2	9
3	2
4	3
5	4
6	4
7	3
8	26
9	15
10	7
11	12
12	19
13	5
14	9
15	9
16	3
17	6
18	4
19	10
20	16
21	23
22	15
23	5
24	4
25	7
26	13
27	5

96.4286%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	1
diversityRatio	0.6785714285714286
totalSentences	28
uniqueOpeners	19

100.0000%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤30% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags	2
fancyCount	0
fancyTags	(empty)

91.0547%