| 100.00% | Adverbs in dialogue tags | Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs | | totalTags | 4 | | adverbTagCount | 0 | | adverbTags | (empty) | | dialogueSentences | 24 | | tagDensity | 0.167 | | leniency | 0.333 | | rawRatio | 0 | | effectiveRatio | 0 | |
| 95.08% | AI-ism adverb frequency | Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked) | | wordCount | 1017 | | totalAiIsmAdverbs | 1 | | found | | | highlights | | |
| 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) | |
| 11.50% | AI-ism word frequency | Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked) | | wordCount | 1017 | | totalAiIsms | 18 | | found | | 0 | | | 1 | | word | "carried the weight" | | count | 1 |
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| | highlights | | 0 | "wavering" | | 1 | "carried the weight" | | 2 | "unspoken" | | 3 | "silk" | | 4 | "shimmered" | | 5 | "pulsed" | | 6 | "stomach" | | 7 | "flicker" | | 8 | "echoes" | | 9 | "velvet" | | 10 | "vibrated" | | 11 | "pulse" | | 12 | "echoing" | | 13 | "flicked" | | 14 | "searing" | | 15 | "echoed" | | 16 | "looming" |
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| 100.00% | Cliché density | Target: ≤1 cliche(s) per 800-word window | | totalCliches | 0 | | maxInWindow | 0 | | found | (empty) | | highlights | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Emotion telling (show vs. tell) | Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling | | emotionTells | 1 | | narrationSentences | 81 | | matches | | |
| 100.00% | Filter word density | Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words | | filterCount | 0 | | hedgeCount | 1 | | narrationSentences | 81 | | filterMatches | (empty) | | hedgeMatches | | |
| 100.00% | Gibberish response detection | Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words) | | analyzedSentences | 101 | | gibberishSentences | 0 | | adjustedGibberishSentences | 0 | | longSentenceCount | 0 | | runOnParagraphCount | 0 | | giantParagraphCount | 0 | | wordSaladCount | 0 | | repetitionLoopCount | 0 | | controlTokenCount | 0 | | maxSentenceWordsSeen | 26 | | ratio | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 87.02% | Markdown formatting overuse | Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting | | markdownSpans | 14 | | markdownWords | 57 | | totalWords | 1009 | | ratio | 0.056 | | matches | | 0 | "not" | | 1 | "like" | | 2 | "alive" | | 3 | "hungry" | | 4 | "need" | | 5 | "want" | | 6 | "\"Little thief. You’ve been busy.\"" | | 7 | "\"Oh, but I am. The Grove remembers me. It remembers *her" | | 8 | "\"Ask your seer about the blood in your veins, Aurora Carter. Ask her why the Veil bends for you.\"" | | 9 | "\"Run, little thief,\"" | | 10 | "\"But you can’t outrun what you are.\"" | | 11 | "Move!" | | 12 | "\"You can’t hide forever!\"" | | 13 | "here" |
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| 100.00% | Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks) | Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks | | totalAttributions | 7 | | unquotedAttributions | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 33.33% | Name drop frequency | Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words | | totalMentions | 39 | | wordCount | 844 | | uniqueNames | 6 | | maxNameDensity | 2.25 | | worstName | "Rory" | | maxWindowNameDensity | 4 | | worstWindowName | "Rory" | | discoveredNames | | Rory | 19 | | London | 1 | | Isolde | 7 | | Belphegor | 3 | | Nyx | 8 | | Fae | 1 |
| | persons | | 0 | "Rory" | | 1 | "Isolde" | | 2 | "Belphegor" | | 3 | "Nyx" |
| | places | | | globalScore | 0.374 | | windowScore | 0.333 | |
| 100.00% | Narrator intent-glossing | Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns | | analyzedSentences | 67 | | glossingSentenceCount | 1 | | matches | | 0 | "as if waking from a long sleep" |
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| 1.78% | "Not X but Y" pattern overuse | Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words | | totalMatches | 2 | | per1kWords | 1.982 | | wordCount | 1009 | | matches | | 0 | "not the sky but something else" | | 1 | "not in waves, but in tendrils, like fingers reaching for the sky" |
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| 100.00% | Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding) | Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses | | thatCount | 1 | | totalSentences | 101 | | matches | | |
| 100.00% | Paragraph length variance | Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts | | totalParagraphs | 45 | | mean | 22.42 | | std | 18 | | cv | 0.803 | | sampleLengths | | 0 | 59 | | 1 | 10 | | 2 | 23 | | 3 | 48 | | 4 | 69 | | 5 | 15 | | 6 | 37 | | 7 | 8 | | 8 | 58 | | 9 | 13 | | 10 | 7 | | 11 | 47 | | 12 | 12 | | 13 | 3 | | 14 | 57 | | 15 | 28 | | 16 | 11 | | 17 | 32 | | 18 | 6 | | 19 | 46 | | 20 | 1 | | 21 | 7 | | 22 | 21 | | 23 | 30 | | 24 | 13 | | 25 | 50 | | 26 | 15 | | 27 | 22 | | 28 | 12 | | 29 | 3 | | 30 | 34 | | 31 | 3 | | 32 | 2 | | 33 | 30 | | 34 | 4 | | 35 | 14 | | 36 | 31 | | 37 | 9 | | 38 | 37 | | 39 | 16 | | 40 | 26 | | 41 | 3 | | 42 | 18 | | 43 | 14 | | 44 | 5 |
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| 100.00% | Passive voice overuse | Target: ≤2% passive sentences | | passiveCount | 0 | | totalSentences | 81 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse | Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs | | pastProgressiveCount | 0 | | totalVerbs | 151 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 0.00% | Em-dash & semicolon overuse | Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons | | emDashCount | 9 | | semicolonCount | 0 | | flaggedSentences | 7 | | totalSentences | 101 | | ratio | 0.069 | | matches | | 0 | "The moment she crossed the boundary, the world tilted—just for a heartbeat—like the ground had shifted beneath her." | | 1 | "Wildflowers carpeted the ground in impossible colors—blues that bled into violet, golds that shimmered like molten metal." | | 2 | "A breeze slithered through the grove, carrying whispers—voices, maybe, or just the rustle of leaves speaking in a language she almost understood." | | 3 | "The light here was different—softer, greener, as if filtered through stained glass." | | 4 | "The liquid shimmered like mercury, reflecting not the sky but something else—fragments of other places, other times." | | 5 | "Then, slowly, the liquid began to rise—not in waves, but in tendrils, like fingers reaching for the sky." | | 6 | "But the way he looked at her—like she was a meal he’d been waiting to devour—made her skin crawl." |
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| 97.00% | Purple prose (modifier overload) | Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking | | wordCount | 852 | | adjectiveStacks | 0 | | stackExamples | (empty) | | adverbCount | 37 | | adverbRatio | 0.04342723004694836 | | lyAdverbCount | 6 | | lyAdverbRatio | 0.007042253521126761 | |
| 100.00% | Repeated phrase echo | Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2) | | totalSentences | 101 | | echoCount | 0 | | echoWords | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Sentence length variance | Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts | | totalSentences | 101 | | mean | 9.99 | | std | 5.55 | | cv | 0.555 | | sampleLengths | | 0 | 26 | | 1 | 18 | | 2 | 15 | | 3 | 10 | | 4 | 14 | | 5 | 9 | | 6 | 18 | | 7 | 18 | | 8 | 12 | | 9 | 11 | | 10 | 8 | | 11 | 22 | | 12 | 17 | | 13 | 11 | | 14 | 7 | | 15 | 8 | | 16 | 8 | | 17 | 17 | | 18 | 6 | | 19 | 6 | | 20 | 3 | | 21 | 5 | | 22 | 22 | | 23 | 6 | | 24 | 12 | | 25 | 18 | | 26 | 11 | | 27 | 2 | | 28 | 7 | | 29 | 18 | | 30 | 12 | | 31 | 17 | | 32 | 12 | | 33 | 3 | | 34 | 13 | | 35 | 4 | | 36 | 17 | | 37 | 8 | | 38 | 6 | | 39 | 9 | | 40 | 12 | | 41 | 16 | | 42 | 7 | | 43 | 4 | | 44 | 3 | | 45 | 18 | | 46 | 11 | | 47 | 6 | | 48 | 3 | | 49 | 18 |
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| 52.81% | Sentence opener variety | Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers | | consecutiveRepeats | 5 | | diversityRatio | 0.3465346534653465 | | totalSentences | 101 | | uniqueOpeners | 35 | |
| 100.00% | Adverb-first sentence starts | Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb | | adverbCount | 4 | | totalSentences | 77 | | matches | | 0 | "Then the ground sloped downward," | | 1 | "Then, slowly, the liquid began" | | 2 | "Then, just like that, the" | | 3 | "Instead, she pressed something cold" |
| | ratio | 0.052 | |
| 100.00% | Pronoun-first sentence starts | Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun | | pronounCount | 16 | | totalSentences | 77 | | matches | | 0 | "She steadied herself against the" | | 1 | "Her voice carried the weight" | | 2 | "She didn’t have time to" | | 3 | "She crouched, brushing her fingers" | | 4 | "They pulsed faintly at her" | | 5 | "Their trunks twisted into spirals," | | 6 | "They moved deeper, the path" | | 7 | "She reached for it instinctively," | | 8 | "They coiled together, forming a" | | 9 | "She didn’t remember stealing anything." | | 10 | "His gaze flicked to Rory," | | 11 | "She bolted, her lungs burning," | | 12 | "They stumbled into the clearing," | | 13 | "She gasped, her hands shaking" | | 14 | "She didn’t answer." | | 15 | "Its edge glinted in the" |
| | ratio | 0.208 | |
| 37.92% | Subject-first sentence starts | Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject | | subjectCount | 65 | | totalSentences | 77 | | matches | | 0 | "The air hummed with a" | | 1 | "The moment she crossed the" | | 2 | "She steadied herself against the" | | 3 | "Nyx materialized beside her, their" | | 4 | "Isolde didn’t look back as" | | 5 | "Her voice carried the weight" | | 6 | "Rory flexed her fingers, the" | | 7 | "She didn’t have time to" | | 8 | "The clearing opened before them," | | 9 | "Wildflowers carpeted the ground in" | | 10 | "The air smelled of honey" | | 11 | "Nyx inhaled deeply, their shadowy" | | 12 | "Isolde’s laugh was a chime," | | 13 | "She crouched, brushing her fingers" | | 14 | "They pulsed faintly at her" | | 15 | "Rory’s stomach twisted." | | 16 | "A breeze slithered through the" | | 17 | "The trees here weren’t just" | | 18 | "Their trunks twisted into spirals," | | 19 | "Nyx drifted toward it, their" |
| | ratio | 0.844 | |
| 0.00% | Subordinate conjunction sentence starts | Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction | | subConjCount | 0 | | totalSentences | 77 | | matches | (empty) | | ratio | 0 | |
| 45.45% | Technical jargon density | Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns | | analyzedSentences | 44 | | technicalSentenceCount | 6 | | matches | | 0 | "Wildflowers carpeted the ground in impossible colors—blues that bled into violet, golds that shimmered like molten metal." | | 1 | "Their trunks twisted into spirals, knots forming faces that watched them pass." | | 2 | "The light here was different—softer, greener, as if filtered through stained glass." | | 3 | "A man, tall and broad-shouldered, with eyes like embers and a smile that made Rory’s teeth ache." | | 4 | "The demon prince tilted his head, his voice a velvet purr that vibrated in her bones." | | 5 | "Its edge glinted in the fading light, the moonsilver humming faintly, as if waking from a long sleep." |
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| 0.00% | Useless dialogue additions | Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments | | totalTags | 4 | | uselessAdditionCount | 1 | | matches | | 0 | "Her voice carried, a warning wrapped in silk" |
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| 100.00% | Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy) | Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags | | totalTags | 1 | | fancyCount | 1 | | fancyTags | | | dialogueSentences | 24 | | tagDensity | 0.042 | | leniency | 0.083 | | rawRatio | 1 | | effectiveRatio | 0.083 | |