Run: 2026-02-19-01KHTX6C2SNPJGD4204KFK21CW

Run Details

Model:: Mistral Small Creative
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 6.6s
Cost:: $0.000543
Provider:: Mistral

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
93.84%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
32.27%	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)
49.54%	Name drop frequency	(details)
93.18%	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)
100.00%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
58.85%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
100.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
70.17%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
53.57%	Technical jargon density	(details)
53.57%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
73.08%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
82.6021%	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 air inside the grove hit Rory like a held breath finally released. One moment she’d been standing between the gnarled oaks of Richmond Park, the next—this. The standing stones had swallowed them whole, their moss-slick surfaces humming with a vibration that set her teeth on edge. Nyx slipped through the gap behind her, their shadowed form rippling like smoke caught in a draft. The pendant at Rory’s throat pulsed once, sharp as a needle prick, before settling into a slow, insistent throb.

“Well,” Rory muttered, “that’s new.”

The grove stretched before them, a place that shouldn’t exist. The sky above was the colour of twilight after a storm—deep violet bleeding into gold, though no sun hung in it. The trees here weren’t just old; they were *ancient*, their bark etched with runes that glowed faintly, like embers banked beneath ash. The air smelled of crushed herbs and something sweeter, like overripe peaches left to ferment in the sun. Rory’s fingers twitched toward the dagger at her belt, the moonsilver blade Isolde had pressed into her hand just hours before. *For when the Veil thins*, the seer had said, her lavender eyes unreadable. *For when the hungers wake.*

Nyx drifted forward, their form solidifying just enough to brush against the lowest branch of a nearby tree. The leaves shivered, though there was no wind. “This place remembers,” they whispered, voice like dry leaves skittering across stone. “It knows we don’t belong.”

Rory exhaled through her nose. “Yeah, well, neither do you, technically.”

A low chuckle, more felt than heard. “True. But I’ve walked between worlds before. You haven’t.”

She shot them a look. “I’ve walked between *London boroughs*. Close enough.”

The ground beneath her boots wasn’t dirt. It was something softer, something that gave slightly, like moss over damp earth, but when she crouched to touch it, her fingers came away dry. No footprints marked their passage. No sound carried beyond the immediate—no birds, no rustling of unseen creatures, just the occasional *drip… drip…* of water from somewhere unseen.

Then the flowers moved.

Rory froze. A cluster of blooms—petals the colour of bruised plums, stamens like threads of silver—twitched. Not in the wind. *Toward her.* The nearest one unfurled another layer, revealing a heart of deep crimson, the same shade as the gem in her pendant. Her breath hitched.

“Don’t,” Nyx said, but it was too late.

She reached out.

The moment her fingertips grazed the petal, the flower *sang*. Not a sound, not exactly—more like a vibration that hummed up her arm and settled behind her sternum, a note so pure it ached. The grove around them *shifted*. The trees leaned in. The runes on their bark flared brighter, and for a heartbeat, Rory saw *other* things moving between the trunks—figures with too many limbs, faces like shifting mist, there and gone before she could focus.

She jerked her hand back. “What the *hell* was that?”

Nyx’s form flickered, their violet eyes narrowing. “A greeting. Or a warning.” They tilted their head, listening to something she couldn’t hear. “We’re being watched.”

Rory’s grip tightened on the dagger’s hilt. “By what?”

“Not *what*. *Who*.”

A figure stepped from behind the largest oak, silver hair catching the strange light like a blade. Isolde. But not as Rory had seen her before—in the grove, the seer’s presence *pressed* against the air, like the moment before a storm breaks. Her lavender eyes held no warmth, only the weight of centuries.

“You came,” Isolde said, voice like wind through dead leaves. “I didn’t think you would.”

Rory swallowed. “You said the Veil was thinning. That something was coming through.”

“And you, little mortal, thought you could *stop* it?” A laugh, dry as old parchment. “Bold. Or foolish.”

Nyx stepped forward, their shadow stretching unnaturally long. “We didn’t come to argue semantics, Seer. You called. We answered.”

Isolde’s gaze flicked to them, then back to Rory. “The pendant burns, doesn’t it?” She didn’t wait for an answer. “That’s Dymas calling. Gluttony stirs, and its prince hungers.” Her fingers twitched, as if plucking invisible strings. “The solstice nears. The Veil weakens. And you”—her eyes locked onto Rory’s—“you are the key.”

Rory’s stomach twisted. “Key to *what*?”

Isolde smiled, but it didn’t reach her eyes. “To whether the hungers stay in Hel… or feast on this world.”

A beat of silence. Then Nyx let out a low, humourless sound. “You’re saying we’re standing in the middle of a *buffet*.”

Isolde’s smile widened. “Oh, no. You’re standing in the *kitchen*.”

The grove *shuddered*. The trees groaned, their runes flaring white-hot. The air thickened, pressing against Rory’s skin like a damp cloth. Somewhere in the distance, something *laughed*—a sound like breaking glass and wet, tearing flesh.

Isolde’s voice dropped to a whisper. “Run.”

And then the ground beneath them *split open*.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	7
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	26
tagDensity	0.269
leniency	0.538
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

93.84%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

812

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"slightly"
count	1

highlights

0	"slightly"

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)

32.27%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

812

totalAiIsms

found

word	"pulsed"
count	1

word	"throb"
count	1

word	"etched"
count	1

word	"unreadable"
count	1

word	"flickered"
count	1

word	"warmth"
count	1

word	"weight"
count	1

word	"flicked"
count	1

word	"stomach"
count	1

word	"silence"
count	1

word	"whisper"
count	1

highlights

0	"pulsed"
1	"throb"
2	"etched"
3	"unreadable"
4	"flickered"
5	"warmth"
6	"weight"
7	"flicked"
8	"stomach"
9	"silence"
10	"whisper"

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	63
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount	0
hedgeCount	0
narrationSentences	63
filterMatches	(empty)
hedgeMatches	(empty)

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

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

analyzedSentences	81
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	35
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans

markdownWords

totalWords

802

ratio

0.04

matches

0	"ancient"
1	"For when the Veil thins"
2	"For when the hungers wake."
3	"London boroughs"
4	"drip… drip…"
5	"Toward her."
6	"sang"
7	"shifted"
8	"other"
9	"hell"
10	"what"
11	"Who"
12	"pressed"
13	"stop"
14	"what"
15	"buffet"
16	"kitchen"
17	"shuddered"
18	"laughed"
19	"split open"

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	8
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

49.54%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

647

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

2.01

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

3.5

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Rory	13
Richmond	1
Park	1
Isolde	7
Veil	1
Nyx	6

persons

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

places

0	"Richmond"
1	"Park"

globalScore

0.495

windowScore

0.5

93.18%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"as if plucking invisible strings"

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches	0
per1kWords	0
wordCount	802
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	81
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

26.73

std

26.66

0.997

sampleLengths

0	83
1	5
2	110
3	43
4	11
5	16
6	12
7	59
8	4
9	46
10	8
11	3
12	77
13	10
14	25
15	9
16	3
17	53
18	15
19	13
20	18
21	19
22	52
23	6
24	20
25	22
26	10
27	35
28	7
29	8

100.00%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount	0
totalSentences	63
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	113
matches	(empty)

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.111

matches

0	"One moment she’d been standing between the gnarled oaks of Richmond Park, the next—this."
1	"The sky above was the colour of twilight after a storm—deep violet bleeding into gold, though no sun hung in it."
2	"The trees here weren’t just old; they were ancient, their bark etched with runes that glowed faintly, like embers banked beneath ash."
3	"No sound carried beyond the immediate—no birds, no rustling of unseen creatures, just the occasional *drip…"
4	"A cluster of blooms—petals the colour of bruised plums, stamens like threads of silver—twitched."
5	"Not a sound, not exactly—more like a vibration that hummed up her arm and settled behind her sternum, a note so pure it ached."
6	"The runes on their bark flared brighter, and for a heartbeat, Rory saw other things moving between the trunks—figures with too many limbs, faces like shifting mist, there and gone before she could focus."
7	"But not as Rory had seen her before—in the grove, the seer’s presence pressed against the air, like the moment before a storm breaks."
8	"Somewhere in the distance, something laughed—a sound like breaking glass and wet, tearing flesh."

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	657
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	24
adverbRatio	0.0365296803652968
lyAdverbCount	6
lyAdverbRatio	0.0091324200913242

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	81
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

9.9

std

6.78

0.684

sampleLengths

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

58.85%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	9
diversityRatio	0.41975308641975306
totalSentences	81
uniqueOpeners	34

100.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Then the flowers moved."
1	"Then Nyx let out a"
2	"Somewhere in the distance, something"

ratio

0.051

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"they whispered, voice like dry"
1	"She shot them a look."
2	"It was something softer, something"
3	"Her breath hitched."
4	"She reached out."
5	"She jerked her hand back."
6	"They tilted their head, listening"
7	"Her lavender eyes held no"
8	"She didn’t wait for an"
9	"Her fingers twitched, as if"

ratio

0.169

70.17%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The air inside the grove"
1	"The standing stones had swallowed"
2	"Nyx slipped through the gap"
3	"The pendant at Rory’s throat"
4	"The grove stretched before them,"
5	"The sky above was the"
6	"The trees here weren’t just"
7	"The air smelled of crushed"
8	"Rory’s fingers twitched toward the"
9	"Nyx drifted forward, their form"
10	"The leaves shivered, though there"
11	"they whispered, voice like dry"
12	"Rory exhaled through her nose."
13	"A low chuckle, more felt"
14	"She shot them a look."
15	"The ground beneath her boots"
16	"It was something softer, something"
17	"drip…* of water from somewhere"
18	"A cluster of blooms—petals the"
19	"Her breath hitched."

ratio

0.78

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	59
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

53.57%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"The standing stones had swallowed them whole, their moss-slick surfaces humming with a vibration that set her teeth on edge."
1	"It was something softer, something that gave slightly, like moss over damp earth, but when she crouched to touch it, her fingers came away dry."
2	"Not a sound, not exactly—more like a vibration that hummed up her arm and settled behind her sternum, a note so pure it ached."

53.57%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Her fingers twitched, as if plucking invisible strings"

73.08%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Rory muttered (mutter)"
1	"they whispered (whisper)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.154

leniency

0.308

rawRatio

0.5

effectiveRatio

0.154

82.6021%