Run: 2026-02-19-01KHTX869QQ56DYMPCV513P3RE

Run Details

Model:: Claude Haiku 4.5
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 17.0s
Cost:: $0.009380
Provider:: Amazon Bedrock

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
88.89%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
95.18%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
27.75%	AI-ism word frequency	(details)
100.00%	Cliché density	(details)
100.00%	Emotion telling (show vs. tell)	(details)
14.65%	Filter word density	(details)
100.00%	Gibberish response detection	(details)
100.00%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
66.67%	Name drop frequency	(details)
2.94%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
5.45%	"Not X but Y" pattern overuse	(details)
100.00%	Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)	(details)
85.12%	Paragraph length variance	(details)
100.00%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
43.19%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
96.26%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
58.91%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
0.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
97.33%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
26.67%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
66.67%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
57.14%	Technical jargon density	(details)
69.44%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
32.35%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
71.1539%	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 oak standing stones loomed ahead, their trunks impossibly wide, bark silvered with age. Aurora ran her fingers across the nearest one and felt grooves carved so deep they seemed to descend into the tree itself. Strange symbols, half-recognizable, flickered just beyond her understanding.

"We're here," Isolde said, her voice like wind through distant valleys. The Half-Fae woman stood motionless, her silver hair catching light that didn't appear to come from any source. "The boundary grows thin. Step through with intention."

Nyx drifted alongside them, their shadowed form rippling at the edges. They'd insisted on accompanying Aurora to the grove, though their reasons remained characteristically opaque. The Shade moved between solids and incorporeals with unsettling fluidity, as though the air itself bent around them.

Aurora exchanged a glance with Nyx. She'd learned not to wait for certainty before moving forward. Her fingers brushed the Heartstone pendant at her throat, checking its familiar weight. The gem sat dormant today, no pulse of warmth, no sign of Hel's proximity. She stepped forward.

The transition struck like walking through a curtain of warm water.

Her breath caught. The air itself felt different here—thicker, alive with something she couldn't name. Wildflowers bloomed everywhere despite the season being autumn. Copper blooms twisted up marble-white stems, indigo flowers with petals that seemed to shift between colors when she wasn't looking directly at them. The scent hit her next: honey and fresh rain and something green and impossible, like spring bottled and released all at once.

The sky hung the color of old cream, neither day nor night. No sun, yet everything glowed with soft luminescence. Light seemed to emanate from the air itself, casting no shadows. Her eyes struggled to adjust, searching for the contrast they needed to judge distance and space.

"The time works differently here," Isolde explained, moving deeper into the grove with no sound beneath her feet. She left no footprints in the moss-covered earth. "You might feel it pressing against your skin. Don't resist."

Aurora's legs felt heavy, as though she moved through gelatin. She pushed through it anyway, watching as Nyx drifted ahead, their violet eyes brightening. The Shade seemed more solid here, less fragmented at the edges.

"The Veil is thin," Nyx murmured, their whisper-voice carrying wonder that Aurora had never heard from them before. "Can you feel it? The fabric between worlds."

She could. Now that Nyx mentioned it, she sensed a vibration in her bones, a frequency just beyond hearing. It made her teeth ache pleasantly, like touching your tongue to a battery but painless. Beautiful and strange.

They moved into a clearing where a ring of ancient stones formed a natural amphitheater. The ground beneath them shifted from moss to something else—crystalline, translucent earth that caught the sourceless light and refracted it into spectrums. Her footsteps made no sound, or perhaps they made too much sound, vibrating through dimensions she couldn't perceive.

In the clearing's center, a spring bubbled from the ground. Its water moved wrong, flowing upward and downward simultaneously, forming shapes that resolved into almost-words before dissolving back into liquid. Aurora approached it slowly, drawn by something she couldn't name.

"Don't drink," Isolde cautioned, though her tone suggested the warning came more from courtesy than genuine concern. "Fae water. You'd lose days without knowing."

Aurora crouched beside it anyway, watching her reflection fracture across the surface. Her bright blue eyes stared back at her from a dozen fragmented versions of her own face. She touched her crescent scar unconsciously, a grounding gesture.

The water moved toward her finger before she broke the surface. It formed a miniature whirlpool, a cyclone suspended in liquid.

"It recognizes you," Isolde said. She'd materialized beside Aurora without crossing the distance between them. "The grove knew you were coming."

"How?" Aurora didn't look away from the water.

"I told it." Isolde's laugh came like frost cracking ice. "Time and intention. I walked these paths and spoke your name into the soil. Roots carry messages here faster than the wind."

Nyx drifted to the far edge of the clearing, where wildflowers grew so densely they formed a wall. The Shade's hands moved through the blooms without disturbing them, passing right through the petals as they shifted into incorporeal form. They were smiling, Aurora realized. She'd never seen Nyx's shadowed features arrange themselves into happiness before.

"There's an opening ahead," the Shade called back. "A path. It descends."

Aurora stood, the water releasing her with what felt like reluctance. She followed Nyx toward the flower wall. Up close, she saw that the blooms defied botanical logic—some with too many petals, others with spiraling centers that descended impossibly deep. One flower exhaled what might have been scent or might have been sound.

The path between them materialized as she approached, as though it had only ever existed in the moment before her feet needed it. The ground dropped away steeply, and ancient steps carved from stone descended into shadow. Real shadow this time, not the illuminated softness of the upper grove. Darkness so complete it seemed textured.

Isolde stepped onto the stairs first, her silver hair the only visible thing in the descending gloom. It seemed to glow brighter, casting her in an ethereal corona.

"What's down there?" Aurora asked.

"The heart of the grove. Where the Veil runs thinnest. Where I carved out my sanctuary from the spaces between."

Aurora drew the Fae-forged blade that Isolde had given her weeks ago. The moonsilver dagger glowed faintly in the darkness, cold against her palm. It wanted to be here, she realized. The blade hummed with purpose.

Nyx flowed alongside her like spilled ink, their violet eyes now the primary source of light as they descended. The air grew colder with each step. Her breath began to mist, though her body felt warm. The contradiction made her dizzy.

The stairs spiraled, and the darkness began to thin. Not with approaching light but with something else. A luminescence from below, faint and pulsing like a heartbeat. Red and gold, the colors of sunset reflected through deep water.

She descended toward it, one hand trailing the cold stone wall, the other gripping her blade.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

88.89%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"Isolde's laugh came like [like]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.529

leniency

rawRatio

0.111

effectiveRatio

0.111

95.18%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

1038

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"slowly"
count	1

highlights

"slowly"

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)

27.75%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

1038

totalAiIsms

found

word	"loomed"
count	1

word	"flickered"
count	1

word	"familiar"
count	1

word	"weight"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	1

word	"warmth"
count	1

word	"marble"
count	1

word	"fragmented"
count	2

word	"whisper"
count	1

word	"crystalline"
count	1

word	"footsteps"
count	1

word	"resolved"
count	1

word	"gloom"
count	1

word	"sanctuary"
count	1

highlights

0	"loomed"
1	"flickered"
2	"familiar"
3	"weight"
4	"pulse"
5	"warmth"
6	"marble"
7	"fragmented"
8	"whisper"
9	"crystalline"
10	"footsteps"
11	"resolved"
12	"gloom"
13	"sanctuary"

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	78
matches	(empty)

14.65%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

(empty)

hedgeMatches

0	"seemed to"
1	"appear to"
2	"began to"

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	24
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1028
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	9
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

66.67%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

916

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.42

worstName

"Aurora"

maxWindowNameDensity

worstWindowName

"Aurora"

discoveredNames

Half-Fae	1
Aurora	13
Shade	4
Nyx	9
Heartstone	1
Hel	1
Isolde	7
Fae-forged	1

persons

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

places

(empty)

globalScore

0.79

windowScore

0.667

2.94%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"petals that seemed to shift between colors when she wasn't looking directly at them"
1	"seemed more solid here, less fragmented at the edges"
2	"felt like reluctance"
3	"seemed textured"

5.45%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches

per1kWords

1.946

wordCount

1028

matches

0	"neither day nor"
1	"Not with approaching light but with something else"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"saw that the"

85.12%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

34.27

std

15.35

0.448

sampleLengths

0	44
1	37
2	43
3	46
4	11
5	68
6	47
7	36
8	35
9	26
10	37
11	55
12	40
13	24
14	38
15	21
16	21
17	8
18	32
19	55
20	12
21	53
22	55
23	28
24	5
25	20
26	36
27	41
28	38
29	16

100.00%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount	0
totalSentences	78
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

165

matches

0	"wasn't looking"

43.19%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.035

matches

0	"The air itself felt different here—thicker, alive with something she couldn't name."
1	"The ground beneath them shifted from moss to something else—crystalline, translucent earth that caught the sourceless light and refracted it into spectrums."
2	"Up close, she saw that the blooms defied botanical logic—some with too many petals, others with spiraling centers that descended impossibly deep."

96.26%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	926
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	41
adverbRatio	0.04427645788336933
lyAdverbCount	13
lyAdverbRatio	0.014038876889848811

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

11.95

std

5.35

0.447

sampleLengths

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

58.91%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	6
diversityRatio	0.3953488372093023
totalSentences	86
uniqueOpeners	34

0.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount	0
totalSentences	75
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

97.33%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"They'd insisted on accompanying Aurora"
1	"She'd learned not to wait"
2	"Her fingers brushed the Heartstone"
3	"She stepped forward."
4	"Her breath caught."
5	"Her eyes struggled to adjust,"
6	"She left no footprints in"
7	"She pushed through it anyway,"
8	"It made her teeth ache"
9	"They moved into a clearing"
10	"Her footsteps made no sound,"
11	"Its water moved wrong, flowing"
12	"Her bright blue eyes stared"
13	"She touched her crescent scar"
14	"It formed a miniature whirlpool,"
15	"She'd materialized beside Aurora without"
16	"They were smiling, Aurora realized."
17	"She'd never seen Nyx's shadowed"
18	"She followed Nyx toward the"
19	"It seemed to glow brighter,"

ratio

0.307

26.67%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The oak standing stones loomed"
1	"Aurora ran her fingers across"
2	"Isolde said, her voice like"
3	"The Half-Fae woman stood motionless,"
4	"Nyx drifted alongside them, their"
5	"They'd insisted on accompanying Aurora"
6	"The Shade moved between solids"
7	"Aurora exchanged a glance with"
8	"She'd learned not to wait"
9	"Her fingers brushed the Heartstone"
10	"The gem sat dormant today,"
11	"She stepped forward."
12	"The transition struck like walking"
13	"Her breath caught."
14	"The air itself felt different"
15	"Wildflowers bloomed everywhere despite the"
16	"Copper blooms twisted up marble-white"
17	"The scent hit her next:"
18	"The sky hung the color"
19	"Light seemed to emanate from"

ratio

0.867

66.67%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Now that Nyx mentioned it,"

ratio

0.013

57.14%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"The Half-Fae woman stood motionless, her silver hair catching light that didn't appear to come from any source."
1	"The Shade moved between solids and incorporeals with unsettling fluidity, as though the air itself bent around them."
2	"Copper blooms twisted up marble-white stems, indigo flowers with petals that seemed to shift between colors when she wasn't looking directly at them."
3	"The ground beneath them shifted from moss to something else—crystalline, translucent earth that caught the sourceless light and refracted it into spectrums."
4	"Its water moved wrong, flowing upward and downward simultaneously, forming shapes that resolved into almost-words before dissolving back into liquid."
5	"Up close, she saw that the blooms defied botanical logic—some with too many petals, others with spiraling centers that descended impossibly deep."

69.44%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Isolde cautioned, though her tone suggested the warning came more from courtesy than genuine concern"

32.35%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Isolde explained (explain)"
1	"Nyx murmured (murmur)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.294

leniency

0.588

rawRatio

0.4

effectiveRatio

0.235

71.1539%