Run: 2026-02-19-01KHTX6QYDW428S52XVXYZRYB9

Run Details

Model:: Minimax M2.5
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 53.7s
Cost:: $0.002509
Provider:: Novita

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
90.70%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
58.14%	AI-ism word frequency	(details)
100.00%	Cliché density	(details)
100.00%	Emotion telling (show vs. tell)	(details)
52.15%	Filter word density	(details)
94.61%	Gibberish response detection	(details)
100.00%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
61.73%	Name drop frequency	(details)
0.00%	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)
99.69%	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)
61.11%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
59.52%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
4.64%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Technical jargon density	(details)
97.22%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
75.9840%	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 standing stones emerged from the twilight mist like the ribs of some enormous buried creature. Aurora counted seven of them, arranged in a rough circle, their surfaces carved with symbols that seemed to writhe at the edges of her vision. She stopped at the tree line, her breath forming small clouds in the cold air.

"You're not going to lose your nerve now, are you?" Nyx's voice came from beside her, though their shadow-form flickered uncertainly at the boundary between the oak trunks.

"It's not nerve, it's—" Aurora touched the Heartstone Pendant at her throat. The crimson gem pulsed warmly against her skin, a steady rhythm that hadn't slowed since they'd entered Richmond Park. "Something feels off about this place."

"Off or different?" Nyx flowed forward, their violet eyes catching the last light of the dying sun. In the growing darkness, they seemed more substantial than usual, their edges less diffuse. "You've never been somewhere the Veil wears thin. Give it time."

They stepped through the ring of stones together.

The change hit Aurora like plunging into cold water—not in temperature, but in perception. The mist that had clung to the park was gone. Above them, the sky blazed with stars she'd never seen, constellations that formed shapes her mind refused to hold. The air tasted of honey and lightning, of spring blossoms and something older, something that made her think of deep wells and closed doors.

"Fuck," she breathed.

Nyx made a sound that might have been a laugh. "Language."

Aurora ignored them. She walked forward, her boots crunching on grass that sparkled faintly with frost despite the mild air. Wildflowers she couldn't name bloomed in impossible abundance—petals of silver and blue and a color that existed somewhere between purple and the memory of purple. They grew in spiraling patterns that seemed almost deliberate, almost meaningful, like a language written in growth instead of words.

"The time difference," Aurora said, remembering what Isolde had told her during their last meeting. "You said an hour in here could be—"

"Minutes or days outside. Yes." Nyx drifted toward one of the standing stones, their form flickering as they passed through a beam of strange moonlight. "Don't think about it too hard. Time is... suggestions here. Guidelines."

The path ahead wound through a copse of oak trees that shouldn't have been able to grow this way—their branches twisted together overhead, forming a tunnel of living wood that glowed with a faint bioluminescence. Aurora drew the Fae-Forged Blade from its sheath at her hip. The moonsilver dagger had been cold since she'd received it from Isolde, but now it hummed with a warmth that matched the pendant at her throat.

"Isolde?" she called out. Her voice didn't echo—it simply spread, absorbed by the thick air, by the watching trees. "I came back. Like you said I would."

Silence. Then, from somewhere deeper in the grove, the sound of something moving. Not footsteps. Something softer. Something that seemed to come from the earth itself.

"Nyx." Aurora kept her voice low.

"I see it." The Shade had drifted closer to her, their form now solid enough to cast a faint shadow in the alien moonlight. "Something's watching us. Multiple somethings."

Aurora pushed forward, her grip tight on the dagger's cold handle. The canopy opened into a clearing—and she stopped dead.

The glade was圆形, centered by a pool of water so still it looked like polished silver. Trees surrounded it in a perfect ring, their bark white as bone, their branches reaching inward like grasping fingers. And there, sitting on a stone that seemed to grow from the earth itself, was Isolde.

The seer looked exactly as she had during their first meeting: ageless, ethereal, her silver hair flowing over her shoulders like water. Her pale lavender eyes found Aurora's immediately, and she smiled—a expression that seemed genuinely warm despite the alien geometry of her face.

"You brought the Shade," Isolde said. Her voice rang with harmonics, with undertones, as if multiple people spoke alongside her. "Interesting."

"You said I needed to come back. I'm here." Aurora took a careful step toward the pool. The water didn't reflect the sky above—it showed stars that weren't there, constellations that moved in patterns she couldn't follow. "You said you'd explain. About the pendant. About what it means."

"I said you would understand when you returned." Isolde rose from her stone, and Aurora noticed for the first time that the seer left no impression in the grass, no footprint, no sign of weight. "I did not say I would explain. Understanding and explanation are different roads, Aurora Carter."

"Can you just—" Aurora stopped, frustrated. "Can you just once give me a straight answer?"

Isolde laughed, a sound like wind chimes in a storm. "Straight answers are for straight minds, and this place bends all things." She gestured toward the pool. "Look deeper, child. The pendant led you here for a reason. The gem knows what your heart cannot yet accept."

Aurora approached the pool's edge, the pendant pulsing faster now, almost painful in its warmth. She looked down into the silver water—and saw herself. But wrong. Flipped. Like a reflection in a mirror that showed truth instead of surface.

The reflection smiled at her. The reflection spoke.

"You've been running from what you are," the reflection said, in a voice like splitting ice. "From what you carry. From what chose you."

Aurora stumbled backward. Her hand went to the pendant, but she couldn't tear her eyes from the pool. The reflection was still there, still watching, still smiling with her face.

"The fuck is that?" Nyx moved to her side, their form rippling with what might have been concern.

"That," Isolde said softly, "is why I brought her here. Why the pendant drew her to Dymas, to the realm of Gluttony. Why it led her to my grove." The seer's pale eyes gleamed. "The Heartstone was not given to you by chance, Aurora Carter. It was given to you by something that wants you to find the doors between worlds. And the pendant... it is a key."

The reflection in the pool raised a hand, pressed it against the inside of the water's surface as if trying to break through.

"The Veil is weakening," the reflection said. "Winter solstice approaches. And you—you carry a piece of what keeps the darkness at bay."

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"Isolde said softly [softly]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.545

leniency

rawRatio

0.056

effectiveRatio

0.056

90.70%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

1075

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"warmly"
count	1

adverb	"softly"
count	1

highlights

0	"warmly"
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)

58.14%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

1075

totalAiIsms

found

word	"flickered"
count	1

word	"pulsed"
count	1

word	"warmth"
count	2

word	"echo"
count	1

word	"silence"
count	1

word	"footsteps"
count	1

word	"perfect"
count	1

word	"weight"
count	1

highlights

0	"flickered"
1	"pulsed"
2	"warmth"
3	"echo"
4	"silence"
5	"footsteps"
6	"perfect"
7	"weight"

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)

52.15%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

"think"

hedgeMatches

0	"seemed to"

94.61%

Gibberish response detection

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

analyzedSentences

gibberishSentences

adjustedGibberishSentences

longSentenceCount

runOnParagraphCount

giantParagraphCount

wordSaladCount

repetitionLoopCount

controlTokenCount

maxSentenceWordsSeen

ratio

0.013

matches

0	"The glade was圆形, centered by a pool of water so still it looked like polished silver."

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1064
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	15
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

61.73%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

793

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.77

worstName

"Aurora"

maxWindowNameDensity

worstWindowName

"Aurora"

discoveredNames

Aurora	14
Heartstone	1
Pendant	1
Richmond	1
Park	1
Nyx	5
Isolde	7
Fae-Forged	1
Blade	1
Shade	1

persons

0	"Aurora"
1	"Nyx"
2	"Isolde"
3	"Shade"

places

0	"Richmond"
1	"Park"

globalScore

0.617

windowScore

0.667

0.00%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"symbols that seemed to writhe at the edges of her vision"
1	"seemed more substantial than usual, their edges less diffuse"
2	"Something that seemed to come from the earth itself"
3	"looked like polished silver"
4	"stone that seemed to grow from the earth itself, was Isolde"
5	"as if trying to break through"

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches

per1kWords

0.94

wordCount

1064

matches

0	"not in temperature, but in perception"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	78
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

33.25

std

18.97

0.57

sampleLengths

0	56
1	28
2	37
3	42
4	8
5	67
6	3
7	11
8	65
9	23
10	36
11	72
12	27
13	26
14	6
15	29
16	20
17	51
18	44
19	21
20	48
21	50
22	15
23	47
24	39
25	8
26	24
27	30
28	18
29	68
30	23
31	22

99.69%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"was gone"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	125
matches	(empty)

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.103

matches

0	"The change hit Aurora like plunging into cold water—not in temperature, but in perception."
1	"Wildflowers she couldn't name bloomed in impossible abundance—petals of silver and blue and a color that existed somewhere between purple and the memory of purple."
2	"The path ahead wound through a copse of oak trees that shouldn't have been able to grow this way—their branches twisted together overhead, forming a tunnel of living wood that glowed with a faint bioluminescence."
3	"Her voice didn't echo—it simply spread, absorbed by the thick air, by the watching trees."
4	"The canopy opened into a clearing—and she stopped dead."
5	"Her pale lavender eyes found Aurora's immediately, and she smiled—a expression that seemed genuinely warm despite the alien geometry of her face."
6	"The water didn't reflect the sky above—it showed stars that weren't there, constellations that moved in patterns she couldn't follow."
7	"She looked down into the silver water—and saw herself."

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	803
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	23
adverbRatio	0.028642590286425903
lyAdverbCount	8
lyAdverbRatio	0.009962640099626401

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	78
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

13.64

std

8.44

0.619

sampleLengths

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

61.11%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	9
diversityRatio	0.4358974358974359
totalSentences	78
uniqueOpeners	34

59.52%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Then, from somewhere deeper in"

ratio

0.018

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"She stopped at the tree"
1	"They stepped through the ring"
2	"She walked forward, her boots"
3	"They grew in spiraling patterns"
4	"she called out"
5	"Her voice didn't echo—it simply"
6	"Her pale lavender eyes found"
7	"Her voice rang with harmonics,"
8	"She gestured toward the pool"
9	"She looked down into the"
10	"Her hand went to the"

ratio

0.196

4.64%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The standing stones emerged from"
1	"Aurora counted seven of them,"
2	"She stopped at the tree"
3	"Nyx's voice came from beside"
4	"Aurora touched the Heartstone Pendant"
5	"The crimson gem pulsed warmly"
6	"Nyx flowed forward, their violet"
7	"They stepped through the ring"
8	"The change hit Aurora like"
9	"The mist that had clung"
10	"The air tasted of honey"
11	"Nyx made a sound that"
12	"Aurora ignored them."
13	"She walked forward, her boots"
14	"Wildflowers she couldn't name bloomed"
15	"They grew in spiraling patterns"
16	"Aurora said, remembering what Isolde"
17	"Nyx drifted toward one of"
18	"The path ahead wound through"
19	"Aurora drew the Fae-Forged Blade"

ratio

0.911

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	56
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

0.00%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"The crimson gem pulsed warmly against her skin, a steady rhythm that hadn't slowed since they'd entered Richmond Park."
1	"The air tasted of honey and lightning, of spring blossoms and something older, something that made her think of deep wells and closed doors."
2	"Wildflowers she couldn't name bloomed in impossible abundance—petals of silver and blue and a color that existed somewhere between purple and the memory of purp…"
3	"They grew in spiraling patterns that seemed almost deliberate, almost meaningful, like a language written in growth instead of words."
4	"The path ahead wound through a copse of oak trees that shouldn't have been able to grow this way—their branches twisted together overhead, forming a tunnel of l…"
5	"Trees surrounded it in a perfect ring, their bark white as bone, their branches reaching inward like grasping fingers."
6	"Her pale lavender eyes found Aurora's immediately, and she smiled—a expression that seemed genuinely warm despite the alien geometry of her face."
7	"Her voice rang with harmonics, with undertones, as if multiple people spoke alongside her."
8	"The water didn't reflect the sky above—it showed stars that weren't there, constellations that moved in patterns she couldn't follow."
9	"The reflection in the pool raised a hand, pressed it against the inside of the water's surface as if trying to break through."

97.22%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Nyx moved, their form rippling with what might have been concern"

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"she breathed (breathe)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.182

leniency

0.364

rawRatio

0.167

effectiveRatio

0.061

75.9840%