Run: 2026-02-19-01KHT03QB23HR6ER3H0J12ZV23

Run Details

Model:
Writer: Palmyra X5
Test:
Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:
Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:
16.9s
Cost:
$0.009296
Provider:
Amazon Bedrock

Evaluation summary

Score Evaluator
Details Link
100.00% Adverbs in dialogue tags (details)
89.52% AI-ism adverb frequency (details)
100.00% AI-ism character names (details)
100.00% AI-ism location names (details)
42.35% AI-ism word frequency (details)
100.00% Cliché density (details)
100.00% Emotion telling (show vs. tell) (details)
100.00% Filter word density (details)
100.00% Gibberish response detection (details)
100.00% Markdown formatting overuse (details)
100.00% Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks) (details)
46.45% Name drop frequency (details)
0.00% Narrator intent-glossing (details)
0.00% "Not X but Y" pattern overuse (details)
100.00% Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding) (details)
100.00% Paragraph length variance (details)
96.27% Passive voice overuse (details)
100.00% Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse (details)
0.00% Em-dash & semicolon overuse (details)
98.28% Purple prose (modifier overload) (details)
100.00% Repeated phrase echo (details)
100.00% Sentence length variance (details)
48.69% Sentence opener variety (details)
100.00% Adverb-first sentence starts (details)
100.00% Pronoun-first sentence starts (details)
43.33% Subject-first sentence starts (details)
0.00% Subordinate conjunction sentence starts (details)
85.71% Technical jargon density (details)
25.00% Useless dialogue additions (details)
0.00% Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy) (details)
72.5200% Overall

Model input

System
You are an expert fiction writer. Always keep the following rules in mind: - Write in past tense and use General English spelling, grammar, and colloquialisms/slang. - Write in active voice - Always follow the "show, don't tell" principle. - Avoid adverbs and cliches and overused/commonly used phrases. Aim for fresh and original descriptions. - Convey events and story through dialogue. - Mix short, punchy sentences with long, descriptive ones. Drop fill words to add variety. - Skip "he/she said said" dialogue tags and convey people's actions or face expressions through their speech - Avoid mushy dialog and descriptions, have dialogue always continue the action, never stall or add unnecessary fluff. Vary the descriptions to not repeat yourself. - Put dialogue on its own paragraph to separate scene and action. - Reduce indicators of uncertainty like "trying" or "maybe" When writing text: - NEVER conclude the scene on your own, follow the beat instructions very closely. - NEVER end with foreshadowing. - NEVER write further than what I prompt you with. - AVOID imagining possible endings, NEVER deviate from the instructions. - STOP EARLY if the continuation contains what was required in the instructions. You do not need to fill out the full amount of words possible.
User/Human
Take into account the following glossary of characters/locations/items/lore... when writing your response: <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="4418" name="Nyx" aliases="Nyx, the Shadow, Nightwhisper" pronouns="they/them" species="Shade" storyRole="Wild Card"> <eyeColor>faintly glowing violet</eyeColor> <height>approximately 6'2" in solid form</height> <age>ageless</age> <form>humanoid silhouette of living shadow, can shift between solid and incorporeal</form> <voice>sounds like a whisper carried on the wind</voice> <description>A being of living shadow, existing between the mortal plane and the spaces between realms.</description> <backstory>Nyx was once a human sorcerer named Aldric who became trapped between realms during a failed summoning ritual in 1643. They now exist as a Shade, bound to the mortal plane but able to slip between shadows.</backstory> </character> <character id="4424" name="Isolde Varga" aliases="Isolde, the Seer" pronouns="she/her" species="Half-Fae" storyRole="Oracle"> <eyeColor>pale lavender</eyeColor> <hair>silver, reaching her waist</hair> <height>5'5"</height> <age>300 years old</age> <appearance>ethereal, ageless</appearance> <speech>speaks in riddles</speech> <footprints>leaves no footprints when she walks</footprints> <compulsion>cannot lie (Fae compulsion) but can mislead</compulsion> <description>A Half-Fae seer exiled from the Fae Courts for sharing visions with mortals.</description> <backstory>She now lives in a hidden grove in Richmond Park, offering cryptic prophecies to those who seek her out.</backstory> </character> <location id="853" name="Dymas (Gluttony)" aliases="Dymas, gluttony, Dymasian" realm="Hel" sin="Gluttony"> <ruler>Prince Belphegor</ruler> <skyColor>warm amber</skyColor> <description>A place of excess and indulgence. Sprawling vineyards, orchards, and gardens provide exotic ingredients for master chefs — often helbound souls contracted from Earth. Grand feasts and culinary competitions are common.</description> </location> <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> <item id="2006" name="Fae-Forged Blade" aliases="the Fae blade, Isolde's gift" type="Weapon" origin="The Fae Courts"> <material>moonsilver</material> <shape>slender, leaf-shaped dagger</shape> <temperature>always cold to the touch</temperature> <glow>faintly luminescent in moonlight</glow> <power>can cut through magical wards; particularly effective against demons</power> <givenTo>given to Aurora by Isolde as a gift</givenTo> <description>A weapon of the Fae Courts, rare and highly coveted.</description> </item> <lore id="7001" name="The Veil" aliases="the Veil, the Barrier, the Boundary" category="Cosmology"> <solsticeEffect>weakens during the winter solstice, strengthens during the summer solstice</solsticeEffect> <appearance>faint shimmering distortion visible only to those with supernatural sight</appearance> <monitoring>rift points (tears in the Veil) are monitored by the Wardens</monitoring> <description>The Veil is the metaphysical barrier separating Earth from Hel and the Fae Realms.</description> </lore> </codex> Continue the story using the following instructions: <instructions> Write a fully fleshed out scene of at least 1000 words in the fantasy genre. A small group enters an ancient, otherworldly place for the first time. The environment is alien and wondrous. Describe their exploration — what they see, hear, and feel as they move deeper. Include moments of discovery, unease, and wonder. Let the world-building emerge through the characters' experience rather than exposition. Use the codex entries above as your world reference for characters, setting, and lore. Only include the prose of the scene without any markdown or commentary. </instructions>

Model response

AI
The air changed before the path did. One moment, it was the damp green breath of Richmond Park—moss, wet bark, old leaves—then a subtle shift, like the world had inhaled and exhaled something older. Aurora paused, fingertips brushing the nearest oak. Its bark wasn’t bark. Not fully. The grain swirled in impossible patterns, spiralling inward like a snail’s shell, dark and slick with dew that smelled faintly of burnt sugar. Behind her, Nyx solidified from the shadow of a yew tree, their form pulling together like smoke drawn into a single breath. “We’re past the veil,” they whispered, the words rustling through the air like dry leaves. “Not fully, but… unspooling.” Aurora glanced back. “You said it would feel strange. This feels wrong.” “It’s not wrong,” Nyx corrected. “Just not meant for mortals. Not anymore.” Ahead, the trees thinned, and the sky lifted—not to blue, but to a soft, pulsing lavender that seemed to breathe with the light. Flowers speckled the earth in colours Aurora didn't have words for: petals like crushed stars, stems that glowed a dull gold, blooms that folded inward when she stepped near, only to unfurl again as if remembering a rhythm. “Time moves differently here,” Nyx added, drifting forward. Their shadow-body flickered at the edges, torn between the grove and wherever it was Shades came from. “One breath could be a year. Or a century. Depends on what the grove wants.” Aurora flexed her left hand, the crescent scar on her wrist tingling. The Heartstone Pendant beneath her shirt pulsed—warm, insistent—like a second heartbeat. She didn’t touch it. Not yet. Instead, she stepped forward, boots sinking slightly into moss that gave underfoot like cool velvet. The clearing opened into a circle of standing stones, each oak thicker than a London bus, their roots coiled deep into the earth like the fingers of buried giants. Between them, the air shimmered faintly, as if a ripple passed through something unseen. Then she saw her. A woman stood at the far edge of the circle, silver hair cascading down like liquid moonlight, bare feet ghosting over the grass without leaving a trace. Her eyes—pale lavender, almost white—locked onto Aurora’s the moment she stepped into the ring. “A visitor,” the woman said. Her voice was layered, like wind through reeds, water over stone. “With a heart that remembers places it has never been.” Aurora didn’t answer. She didn’t know if she was meant to. Nyx materialized beside her, smaller now, subdued. “Isolde.” The woman—Isolde—smiled, but it didn’t reach her eyes. “The Shade returns. And not alone. You’ve brought me a key with no lock.” “I didn’t bring her,” Nyx said. “She followed the pull.” Isolde tilted her head. “No. You both followed the fear. The rifts in the Veil grow teeth. Belphegor’s chefs are hungry again.” Aurora finally found her voice. “Dymas?” “The Prince of Gluttony feasts,” Isolde said, stepping forward. The flowers at her feet curled upward, reaching for her like supplicants. “His kitchens are never full enough. His contracts never satisfied. Souls are currency. And you—” She lifted a hand, not quite touching Aurora’s face. “—you carry a stone from his gardens.” Aurora’s fingers flew to the pendant. “It was left on my doorstep. No note. No name.” “It knows you,” Isolde murmured. “It called you here. Not me. Not Nyx. You.” The pendant throbbed again, warm against her skin. “I don’t want it,” Aurora said. “I don’t want any of this.” Isolde’s smile thinned. “Want is irrelevant. The Veil weakens. The solstice nears. And the grove only opens to those it chooses. You were not invited. You were drawn.” Nyx shifted, a ripple passing through their form. “She’s not one of us, Isolde. She’s not Fae. Not Shade. Not damned.” “No,” Isolde agreed. “She is something else. Something new. Or old. Forgotten and remembered all at once.” Aurora looked around. The standing stones hummed now, low and deep, like the groan of ancient wood under strain. The air tasted different—thicker, sweetened with something floral and metallic, like blood and perfume. Her pulse drummed in her throat. Then she saw it. Half-buried in the moss, near the base of the largest stone, something glinted. She stepped forward. Nyx didn’t stop her. It was a dagger. Pale silver, leaf-shaped, its surface etched with symbols that shifted when she looked away and back. The moment her fingers hovered over it, the metal turned cold—so cold it burned. “The Fae-Forged Blade,” Isolde said softly. “It has waited for you.” “I don’t want weapons,” Aurora said, but her hand closed around the hilt. The world lurched. A flash—vines heavy with fruit the colour of bruises, tables groaning under roasted creatures with too many eyes, laughter like cracking ice. A hall stretching endlessly, lit by chandeliers made of frozen screams. And fire. Not red. Black fire, flickering in hearths deeper than basements. She gasped, pulling back. Nyx caught her wrist. “You saw Dymas.” Aurora’s breath came fast. “It was real.” “As real as memory,” Isolde said. “The blade remembers. And it remembers you.” “That’s impossible. I’ve never been there.” “No,” Isolde agreed. “But someone wearing your face has.” Silence settled again, heavier than before. The pendant pulsed. The blade hummed in her grip, faintly luminous in the twilight that wasn’t twilight. The flowers watched. The stones listened. Aurora looked at her hands—one holding a weapon from a world she shouldn’t know, the other marked by a scar from a life that should be over. “This is not my life,” she whispered. Isolde stepped close. “It is now.” The wind shifted. The grove breathed. And deep beneath the moss, something stirred.
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Evaluation details

Result Evaluator Details Meta Data
100.00% Adverbs in dialogue tags
Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs
totalTags15
adverbTagCount1
adverbTags
0"Isolde said softly [softly]"
dialogueSentences39
tagDensity0.385
leniency0.769
rawRatio0.067
effectiveRatio0.051
89.52% AI-ism adverb frequency
Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked)
wordCount954
totalAiIsmAdverbs2
found
0
adverb"slightly"
count1
1
adverb"softly"
count1
highlights
0"slightly"
1"softly"
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)
42.35% AI-ism word frequency
Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked)
wordCount954
totalAiIsms11
found
0
word"flickered"
count1
1
word"pulsed"
count2
2
word"velvet"
count1
3
word"shimmered"
count1
4
word"cascading"
count1
5
word"throbbed"
count1
6
word"pulse"
count1
7
word"etched"
count1
8
word"lurched"
count1
9
word"silence"
count1
highlights
0"flickered"
1"pulsed"
2"velvet"
3"shimmered"
4"cascading"
5"throbbed"
6"pulse"
7"etched"
8"lurched"
9"silence"
100.00% Cliché density
Target: ≤1 cliche(s) per 800-word window
totalCliches0
maxInWindow0
found(empty)
highlights(empty)
100.00% Emotion telling (show vs. tell)
Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling
emotionTells0
narrationSentences78
matches(empty)
100.00% Filter word density
Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words
filterCount0
hedgeCount1
narrationSentences78
filterMatches(empty)
hedgeMatches
0"seemed to"
100.00% Gibberish response detection
Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words)
analyzedSentences102
gibberishSentences0
adjustedGibberishSentences0
longSentenceCount0
runOnParagraphCount0
giantParagraphCount0
wordSaladCount0
repetitionLoopCount0
controlTokenCount0
maxSentenceWordsSeen38
ratio0
matches(empty)
100.00% Markdown formatting overuse
Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting
markdownSpans0
markdownWords0
totalWords938
ratio0
matches(empty)
100.00% Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)
Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks
totalAttributions18
unquotedAttributions0
matches(empty)
46.45% Name drop frequency
Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words
totalMentions40
wordCount676
uniqueNames11
maxNameDensity2.07
worstName"Aurora"
maxWindowNameDensity3.5
worstWindowName"Aurora"
discoveredNames
Richmond1
Park1
Nyx8
Aurora14
Ahead1
Shades1
Heartstone1
Pendant1
London1
Isolde10
Silence1
persons
0"Nyx"
1"Aurora"
2"Shades"
3"Isolde"
4"Silence"
places
0"Richmond"
1"Park"
2"London"
globalScore0.464
windowScore0.5
0.00% Narrator intent-glossing
Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns
analyzedSentences39
glossingSentenceCount3
matches
0"lavender that seemed to breathe with the light"
1"as if remembering a rhythm"
2"not quite touching Aurora’s face"
0.00% "Not X but Y" pattern overuse
Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words
totalMatches2
per1kWords2.132
wordCount938
matches
0"Not fully, but… unspooling"
1"not to blue, but to a soft, pulsing lavender"
100.00% Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)
Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses
thatCount0
totalSentences102
matches(empty)
100.00% Paragraph length variance
Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts
totalParagraphs47
mean19.96
std16.56
cv0.83
sampleLengths
070
141
212
312
461
540
644
743
84
941
1026
1111
128
1322
1410
1522
166
1752
1816
1914
208
2112
2228
2321
2417
2539
264
2713
287
2934
3011
3113
323
3345
344
357
367
3713
386
399
406
4123
4227
437
446
456
467
96.27% Passive voice overuse
Target: ≤2% passive sentences
passiveCount2
totalSentences78
matches
0"was layered"
1"was meant"
100.00% Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse
Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs
pastProgressiveCount0
totalVerbs136
matches(empty)
0.00% Em-dash & semicolon overuse
Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons
emDashCount13
semicolonCount0
flaggedSentences9
totalSentences102
ratio0.088
matches
0"One moment, it was the damp green breath of Richmond Park—moss, wet bark, old leaves—then a subtle shift, like the world had inhaled and exhaled something older."
1"Ahead, the trees thinned, and the sky lifted—not to blue, but to a soft, pulsing lavender that seemed to breathe with the light."
2"The Heartstone Pendant beneath her shirt pulsed—warm, insistent—like a second heartbeat."
3"Her eyes—pale lavender, almost white—locked onto Aurora’s the moment she stepped into the ring."
4"The woman—Isolde—smiled, but it didn’t reach her eyes."
5"The air tasted different—thicker, sweetened with something floral and metallic, like blood and perfume."
6"The moment her fingers hovered over it, the metal turned cold—so cold it burned."
7"A flash—vines heavy with fruit the colour of bruises, tables groaning under roasted creatures with too many eyes, laughter like cracking ice."
8"Aurora looked at her hands—one holding a weapon from a world she shouldn’t know, the other marked by a scar from a life that should be over."
98.28% Purple prose (modifier overload)
Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking
wordCount691
adjectiveStacks0
stackExamples(empty)
adverbCount29
adverbRatio0.041968162083936326
lyAdverbCount9
lyAdverbRatio0.013024602026049204
100.00% Repeated phrase echo
Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2)
totalSentences102
echoCount0
echoWords(empty)
100.00% Sentence length variance
Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts
totalSentences102
mean9.2
std7.32
cv0.796
sampleLengths
07
127
27
34
42
523
622
715
84
93
109
115
127
1323
1438
158
1617
1715
1812
1911
204
212
2215
2329
2414
254
2627
2714
285
2911
3010
313
328
337
341
358
3614
376
384
394
4018
415
421
439
4412
4524
467
476
4810
495
48.69% Sentence opener variety
Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers
consecutiveRepeats12
diversityRatio0.3627450980392157
totalSentences102
uniqueOpeners37
100.00% Adverb-first sentence starts
Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb
adverbCount3
totalSentences66
matches
0"Instead, she stepped forward, boots"
1"Then she saw her."
2"Then she saw it."
ratio0.045
100.00% Pronoun-first sentence starts
Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun
pronounCount12
totalSentences66
matches
0"Its bark wasn’t bark."
1"they whispered, the words rustling"
2"Their shadow-body flickered at the"
3"She didn’t touch it."
4"Her eyes—pale lavender, almost white—locked"
5"Her voice was layered, like"
6"She didn’t know if she"
7"She lifted a hand, not"
8"Her pulse drummed in her"
9"She stepped forward."
10"It was a dagger."
11"She gasped, pulling back."
ratio0.182
43.33% Subject-first sentence starts
Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject
subjectCount55
totalSentences66
matches
0"The air changed before the"
1"Aurora paused, fingertips brushing the"
2"Its bark wasn’t bark."
3"The grain swirled in impossible"
4"they whispered, the words rustling"
5"Aurora glanced back."
6"Flowers speckled the earth in"
7"Nyx added, drifting forward"
8"Their shadow-body flickered at the"
9"Aurora flexed her left hand,"
10"The Heartstone Pendant beneath her"
11"She didn’t touch it."
12"The clearing opened into a"
13"A woman stood at the"
14"Her eyes—pale lavender, almost white—locked"
15"the woman said"
16"Her voice was layered, like"
17"Aurora didn’t answer."
18"She didn’t know if she"
19"Nyx materialized beside her, smaller"
ratio0.833
0.00% Subordinate conjunction sentence starts
Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction
subConjCount0
totalSentences66
matches(empty)
ratio0
85.71% Technical jargon density
Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns
analyzedSentences25
technicalSentenceCount2
matches
0"The grain swirled in impossible patterns, spiralling inward like a snail’s shell, dark and slick with dew that smelled faintly of burnt sugar."
1"Flowers speckled the earth in colours Aurora didn't have words for: petals like crushed stars, stems that glowed a dull gold, blooms that folded inward when she…"
25.00% Useless dialogue additions
Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments
totalTags15
uselessAdditionCount3
matches
0"they whispered, the words rustling through the air like dry leaves"
1"She lifted, not quite touching Aurora’s face"
2"Aurora said, but her hand closed around the hilt"
0.00% Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)
Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags
totalTags14
fancyCount7
fancyTags
0"they whispered (whisper)"
1"Nyx corrected (correct)"
2"Nyx added (add)"
3"Isolde murmured (murmur)"
4"Isolde agreed (agree)"
5"Isolde agreed (agree)"
6"she whispered (whisper)"
dialogueSentences39
tagDensity0.359
leniency0.718
rawRatio0.5
effectiveRatio0.359
72.5200%