Run: 2026-02-17-01KHMZ0GWRYY954ZBAGXJNBW5P

Run Details

Model:: Claude 3.5 Haiku
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Horror: alone in an eerie place at night
Duration:: 13.5s
Cost:: $0.002678

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>

<location id="861" name="The Fae Grove" aliases="Isolde's grove, Richmond grove, the Grove" realm="Earth (Fae-touched)">
  <parkLocation>Richmond Park</parkLocation>
  <standingStones>ancient oak standing stones mark the boundary</standingStones>
  <timeBehavior>time moves differently — an hour inside can be minutes or days outside</timeBehavior>
  <flora>wildflowers bloom year-round</flora>
  <description>A hidden clearing that exists in a pocket between Earth and the Fae realm.</description>
</location>

<item id="2001" name="Heartstone Pendant" aliases="the pendant, Heartstone" type="Artifact" origin="Dymas">
  <gemstoneColor>deep crimson</gemstoneColor>
  <chainMaterial>silver chain</chainMaterial>
  <size>roughly the size of a thumbnail</size>
  <behavior>pulses faintly with warmth when near a Hel portal</behavior>
  <glow>faint inner glow</glow>
  <description>Given to Aurora by an unknown benefactor.</description>
</item>
</codex>

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

A character is alone in a strange, isolated place at night. They came here for a reason, but something feels off from the moment they arrive. The wrongness builds slowly — sounds that shouldn't be there, things that move at the edge of vision, a growing certainty that they are not alone. Build tension through restraint, not through gore.

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

Model response

The ancient oak standing stones cast long shadows in the moonlight, their weathered surfaces etched with lichen and memories older than any living thing. Aurora Carter clutched the Heartstone pendant around her neck, its deep crimson surface pulsing faintly against her skin. She hadn't planned to be here in Richmond Park so late, but the delivery run for Golden Empress had taken longer than expected, and something—a whisper, a pull—had drawn her into the grove.

Time felt different here. The wildflowers that shouldn't bloom in late autumn swayed without wind, their petals iridescent under the silver moonlight. Rory's bright blue eyes scanned the clearing, her straight black hair stirring slightly around her shoulders. The first hint of wrongness crept along her spine—a sensation more felt than heard.

A twig snapped behind her. Not the soft decay of autumn leaves, but a sharp, deliberate crack.

She turned. Nothing.

The standing stones seemed closer now, their lichen-covered surfaces darker than before. Her left wrist—the one with the small crescent-shaped childhood scar—began to tingle. The Heartstone pendant grew warm, its faint inner glow intensifying almost imperceptibly.

Another sound. A rustle. Like fabric dragging through tall grass, but smoother. More deliberate.

"Who's there?" Rory's voice came out steady. She'd learned control from years of dealing with her ex, from navigating her parents' expectations, from surviving London's unpredictable streets. Cool-headed. Analytical.

Silence answered.

The wildflowers had stopped moving. Every single petal was perfectly still, as though carved from glass. The moonlight seemed to bend around the stone circle, creating impossible shadows that shifted when she wasn't looking directly at them.

Something moved at the edge of her vision. A shape. Darker than the surrounding darkness. Gone when she turned her head.

The pendant grew warmer. Its crimson surface seemed to ripple, like blood beneath skin.

Rory took a step backward. The ground beneath her feet felt different—softer, yet more solid. As though the earth itself was watching. Waiting.

Another step.

The standing stones watched. Silent. Knowing.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.0000%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	0
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)

41.1765%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

340

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"perfectly"
count	1

adverb	"slightly"
count	1

highlights

0	"perfectly"
1	"slightly"

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)

41.1765%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

340

totalAiIsms

found

word	"etched"
count	1

word	"navigating"
count	1

highlights

0	"etched"
1	"navigating"

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	40
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Filter word density

Target: ≤12% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

(empty)

hedgeMatches

0	"began to"
1	"seemed to"

100.0000%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤10% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	40
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

23.64

std

20.2

0.854

sampleLengths

0	75
1	52
2	17
3	3
4	36
5	14
6	29
7	2
8	37
9	21
10	14
11	23
12	2
13	6

100.0000%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤5% passive sentences

passiveCount	0
totalSentences	40
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤10% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

matches

0	"wasn't looking"
1	"was watching"

94.0000%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount

338

adjectiveStacks

stackExamples

0	"small crescent-shaped childhood"

adverbCount

adverbRatio

0.038461538461538464

lyAdverbCount

lyAdverbRatio

0.014792899408284023

100.0000%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	40
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.0000%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

8.28

std

7.43

0.898

sampleLengths

0	24
1	18
2	33
3	4
4	18
5	16
6	14
7	5
8	12
9	2
10	1
11	12
12	12
13	12
14	2
15	2
16	8
17	2
18	7
19	20
20	1
21	1
22	2
23	5
24	11
25	21
26	8
27	2
28	5
29	6
30	4
31	10
32	5
33	10
34	7
35	1
36	2
37	4
38	1
39	1

100.0000%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	0
diversityRatio	0.625
totalSentences	40
uniqueOpeners	25

100.0000%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤30% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags	0
fancyCount	0
fancyTags	(empty)

92.7266%