Run: 2026-02-19-01KHT0MTJSZRYRMSCYWZAYASX2

Run Details

Model:: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 32.7s
Cost:: $0.027483
Provider:: Amazon Bedrock

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
0.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
74.87%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
49.75%	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)
100.00%	Name drop frequency	(details)
5.77%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
100.00%	"Not X but Y" pattern overuse	(details)
100.00%	Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)	(details)
100.00%	Paragraph length variance	(details)
100.00%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
0.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
84.14%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
82.56%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
0.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
88.75%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
45.94%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
58.82%	Technical jargon density	(details)
0.00%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
87.50%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
72.6033%	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

The portal closed behind them with a sound like a held breath finally released, and the air changed.

Rory felt it first in her lungs — thick, honeyed, warm in a way that London air never was, not even in August. She stood still for a moment, letting her body take stock. The Heartstone pendant pressed against her sternum through her jacket, pulsing in a slow, steady rhythm, like a second heartbeat that wasn't hers.

"Right." Nyx's voice drifted from somewhere behind her left shoulder. "So this is Dymas."

They had emerged onto a hillside. Below them, the land rolled outward in long, golden sweeps — vineyards that stretched so far Rory couldn't see where they ended, their rows so perfectly ordered they looked carved rather than grown. The sky above was the colour of cooling embers, amber deepening to rust at the edges where something like clouds drifted, slow and heavy. Not clouds. Rory squinted. Smoke, maybe. Or the sky itself, breathing.

Isolde stood apart from them, her silver hair catching the strange amber light. She'd left no marks in the soil when she'd stepped through, and she left none now as she moved forward a few paces, her lavender eyes scanning the valley.

"The road that devours opens wide," she said quietly, more to herself than either of them. "Even the stone grows fat here."

Rory looked down. The ground beneath her boots wasn't earth — or not entirely. It was darker, denser, threaded through with veins of deep red that pulsed faintly when she shifted her weight. She crouched and pressed two fingers to it. Warm. Faintly yielding.

She stood back up quickly.

Nyx had drifted to the edge of a low stone wall that bordered the hillside path. Their form was less stable here — the edges of their silhouette fraying slightly, as though Dymas' atmosphere disagreed with the concept of them. Their violet eyes swept the valley below, and something in the tilt of their head read as unease.

"The light doesn't move right."

"What do you mean?"

"Shadows." Nyx extended one hand and it darkened briefly, drew shadow toward it from the base of the wall — then the shadow slipped away, drawn downhill, toward the valley. "They lean inward. Toward the feast grounds."

Rory hadn't seen any feast grounds yet. She could smell them.

It had crept up on her while she'd been studying the ground — a richness in the air so dense it was nearly a physical thing. Roasting meat. Caramelised fruit. Something floral and fermented, wine or something close to it, layered under the heavier scents like a foundation. Her stomach clenched involuntarily and she pressed her fist against it.

"Don't eat anything," Nyx said, still watching the shadows.

"Wasn't planning to."

"You were thinking about it."

She didn't answer, because they weren't wrong.

They took the path downhill. It wound between the vine rows in long, lazy curves, and as they descended, the scale of the place revealed itself in stages. The vines weren't merely tall — they were enormous, their trunks thick as old oaks, their canopies arching overhead in places, braiding together to form tunnels of leaf and fruit. The grapes that hung from them were wrong in colour. Too dark. Some were black-red, almost bruised-looking; others were a deep arterial crimson that matched the veins in the soil. A few, on the higher branches, were pale as bone.

Rory reached up to touch one without thinking. The skin of it yielded under her fingertip and a single drop of juice ran down her wrist, stopping right at the edge of the crescent-shaped scar. She pulled her hand back and wiped it on her jacket.

"I didn't eat it."

Nyx said nothing, but their eyes tracked the movement.

The path opened without warning into a courtyard. Not grand, not at first — just a clearing between two long buildings constructed from the same dark, warm stone as the path, with high arched doorways and no doors. But the courtyard itself was set with long tables, dozens of them, extending outward in a fan shape, and they were laden. Platters stacked on platters. Whole roasted things, glazed and glistening. Towers of fruit. Bread in shapes Rory had no names for, crusted with seeds that glittered faintly. Pitchers of liquid in colours she'd never seen a drink be — deep violet, luminous green, a rust-orange that matched the sky exactly.

And no one sat at the tables.

Every chair was pulled back. Every place was set. The food steamed gently in the amber air.

Isolde stopped at the edge of the courtyard and did not step onto the flagstones.

"A table set for guests already arrived," she said. "Or guests not yet wise enough to know they've sat down."

Rory kept close to the wall, skirting the perimeter rather than cutting across. The Heartstone had quickened — not alarmingly, but noticeably, a warmer, faster pulse against her skin. She pressed a hand flat to her sternum and it settled slightly, as though acknowledging her.

From one of the archways came sound. Low, rhythmic, the clatter of something against stone — and then voices, multiple voices, all speaking at once in a language she didn't recognise but that nevertheless made the inside of her chest feel tight, the way a piece of music in a minor key did. She pressed herself back against the wall.

Nyx was already there, or had never not been there, their form pressed thin and flat against the stone, barely distinguishable from its shadow.

"Contracted souls," they breathed. Their voice barely reached her. "Working the kitchens."

Rory looked at the archway. Through it she caught a glimpse — figures moving in orange firelight, bent over worktables, their movements mechanical and practised. Human shapes. Human hands.

She looked at the laden tables. At the empty chairs.

She looked at Isolde, who stood at the courtyard's edge and watched her with pale lavender eyes that gave away nothing at all.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

0.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"she said quietly [quietly]"
1	"their silhouette fraying slightly [slightly]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.438

leniency

0.875

rawRatio

0.286

effectiveRatio

0.25

74.87%

AI-ism adverb frequency

Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked)

wordCount

995

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"perfectly"
count	1

adverb	"quickly"
count	1

adverb	"slightly"
count	2

adverb	"gently"
count	1

highlights

0	"perfectly"
1	"quickly"
2	"slightly"
3	"gently"

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)

49.75%

AI-ism word frequency

Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked)

wordCount

995

totalAiIsms

found

word	"scanning"
count	1

word	"pulsed"
count	1

word	"weight"
count	1

word	"stomach"
count	1

word	"constructed"
count	1

word	"glistening"
count	1

word	"quickened"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	1

word	"rhythmic"
count	1

word	"mechanical"
count	1

highlights

0	"scanning"
1	"pulsed"
2	"weight"
3	"stomach"
4	"constructed"
5	"glistening"
6	"quickened"
7	"pulse"
8	"rhythmic"
9	"mechanical"

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	0
narrationSentences	76
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

"feel"

hedgeMatches

(empty)

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words)

analyzedSentences	86
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	45
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1003
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	10
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

923

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

0.98

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

London	1
August	1
Heartstone	2
Rory	9
Isolde	3
Nyx	6

persons

0	"Heartstone"
1	"Rory"
2	"Isolde"
3	"Nyx"

places

0	"London"
1	"August"

globalScore

windowScore

5.77%

Narrator intent-glossing

Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"something like clouds drifted, slow and heav"
1	"something close to it, layered under the heavier"
2	"as though acknowledging her"

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words

totalMatches

per1kWords

0.997

wordCount

1003

matches

0	"not alarmingly, but noticeably, a warmer, faster pulse against her skin"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"eyes that gave"

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

29.5

std

27.17

0.921

sampleLengths

0	18
1	57
2	14
3	74
4	42
5	22
6	44
7	5
8	58
9	5
10	4
11	37
12	11
13	59
14	9
15	3
16	5
17	7
18	98
19	46
20	4
21	9
22	110
23	7
24	17
25	15
26	20
27	45
28	60
29	24
30	12
31	29
32	10
33	23

100.00%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"was pulled"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	156
matches	(empty)

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.151

matches

0	"Rory felt it first in her lungs — thick, honeyed, warm in a way that London air never was, not even in August."
1	"Below them, the land rolled outward in long, golden sweeps — vineyards that stretched so far Rory couldn't see where they ended, their rows so perfectly ordered they looked carved rather than grown."
2	"The ground beneath her boots wasn't earth — or not entirely."
3	"Their form was less stable here — the edges of their silhouette fraying slightly, as though Dymas' atmosphere disagreed with the concept of them."
4	"\"Shadows.\" Nyx extended one hand and it darkened briefly, drew shadow toward it from the base of the wall — then the shadow slipped away, drawn downhill, toward the valley."
5	"It had crept up on her while she'd been studying the ground — a richness in the air so dense it was nearly a physical thing."
6	"The vines weren't merely tall — they were enormous, their trunks thick as old oaks, their canopies arching overhead in places, braiding together to form tunnels of leaf and fruit."
7	"Some were black-red, almost bruised-looking; others were a deep arterial crimson that matched the veins in the soil."
8	"Not grand, not at first — just a clearing between two long buildings constructed from the same dark, warm stone as the path, with high arched doorways and no doors."
9	"Pitchers of liquid in colours she'd never seen a drink be — deep violet, luminous green, a rust-orange that matched the sky exactly."
10	"The Heartstone had quickened — not alarmingly, but noticeably, a warmer, faster pulse against her skin."
11	"Low, rhythmic, the clatter of something against stone — and then voices, multiple voices, all speaking at once in a language she didn't recognise but that nevertheless made the inside of her chest feel tight, the way a piece of music in a minor key did."
12	"Through it she caught a glimpse — figures moving in orange firelight, bent over worktables, their movements mechanical and practised."

84.14%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	319
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	17
adverbRatio	0.05329153605015674
lyAdverbCount	8
lyAdverbRatio	0.025078369905956112

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	86
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

11.66

std

9.27

0.795

sampleLengths

0	18
1	23
2	11
3	23
4	10
5	4
6	6
7	33
8	24
9	2
10	2
11	2
12	5
13	13
14	29
15	16
16	6
17	3
18	11
19	19
20	8
21	1
22	2
23	5
24	16
25	24
26	18
27	5
28	4
29	30
30	7
31	7
32	4
33	26
34	2
35	2
36	18
37	11
38	9
39	3
40	5
41	7
42	5
43	23
44	30
45	10
46	2
47	18
48	10
49	8

82.56%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	4
diversityRatio	0.5232558139534884
totalSentences	86
uniqueOpeners	45

0.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount	0
totalSentences	64
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

88.75%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"She stood still for a"
1	"They had emerged onto a"
2	"She'd left no marks in"
3	"she said quietly, more to"
4	"It was darker, denser, threaded"
5	"She crouched and pressed two"
6	"She stood back up quickly."
7	"Their form was less stable"
8	"Their violet eyes swept the"
9	"She could smell them."
10	"It had crept up on"
11	"Her stomach clenched involuntarily and"
12	"She didn't answer, because they"
13	"They took the path downhill."
14	"It wound between the vine"
15	"She pulled her hand back"
16	"She pressed a hand flat"
17	"She pressed herself back against"
18	"Their voice barely reached her."
19	"She looked at the laden"

ratio

0.328

45.94%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The portal closed behind them"
1	"Rory felt it first in"
2	"She stood still for a"
3	"The Heartstone pendant pressed against"
4	"Nyx's voice drifted from somewhere"
5	"They had emerged onto a"
6	"The sky above was the"
7	"Isolde stood apart from them,"
8	"She'd left no marks in"
9	"she said quietly, more to"
10	"Rory looked down."
11	"The ground beneath her boots"
12	"It was darker, denser, threaded"
13	"She crouched and pressed two"
14	"She stood back up quickly."
15	"Nyx had drifted to the"
16	"Their form was less stable"
17	"Their violet eyes swept the"
18	"Nyx extended one hand and"
19	"Rory hadn't seen any feast"

ratio

0.828

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	64
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

58.82%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"The Heartstone pendant pressed against her sternum through her jacket, pulsing in a slow, steady rhythm, like a second heartbeat that wasn't hers."
1	"Below them, the land rolled outward in long, golden sweeps — vineyards that stretched so far Rory couldn't see where they ended, their rows so perfectly ordered…"
2	"The vines weren't merely tall — they were enormous, their trunks thick as old oaks, their canopies arching overhead in places, braiding together to form tunnels…"
3	"Some were black-red, almost bruised-looking; others were a deep arterial crimson that matched the veins in the soil."

0.00%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"she said quietly, more to herself than either of them"
1	"their silhouette fraying slightly, as though Dymas' atmosphere disagreed with the concept of them"

87.50%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"they breathed (breathe)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.25

leniency

0.5

rawRatio

0.25

effectiveRatio

0.125

72.6033%