| 100.00% | Adverbs in dialogue tags | Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs | | totalTags | 13 | | adverbTagCount | 0 | | adverbTags | (empty) | | dialogueSentences | 32 | | tagDensity | 0.406 | | leniency | 0.813 | | rawRatio | 0 | | effectiveRatio | 0 | |
| 90.36% | AI-ism adverb frequency | Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked) | | wordCount | 1037 | | totalAiIsmAdverbs | 2 | | found | | | highlights | | |
| 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) | |
| 37.32% | AI-ism word frequency | Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked) | | wordCount | 1037 | | totalAiIsms | 13 | | found | | | highlights | | 0 | "charged" | | 1 | "whisper" | | 2 | "warmth" | | 3 | "intensity" | | 4 | "streaming" | | 5 | "shimmered" | | 6 | "quickened" | | 7 | "absolutely" | | 8 | "loomed" | | 9 | "depths" | | 10 | "pulse" | | 11 | "resonance" |
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| 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 | 61 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Filter word density | Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words | | filterCount | 0 | | hedgeCount | 0 | | narrationSentences | 61 | | filterMatches | (empty) | | hedgeMatches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Gibberish response detection | Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words) | | analyzedSentences | 80 | | 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 | 0 | | markdownWords | 0 | | totalWords | 1022 | | ratio | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks) | Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks | | totalAttributions | 9 | | unquotedAttributions | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 29.29% | Name drop frequency | Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words | | totalMentions | 39 | | wordCount | 787 | | uniqueNames | 8 | | maxNameDensity | 2.41 | | worstName | "Aurora" | | maxWindowNameDensity | 4 | | worstWindowName | "Aurora" | | discoveredNames | | Heartstone | 1 | | Nyx | 7 | | Aurora | 19 | | Uncertainty | 1 | | Fae | 1 | | Seer | 1 | | Isolde | 8 | | Dymas | 1 |
| | persons | | 0 | "Nyx" | | 1 | "Aurora" | | 2 | "Isolde" | | 3 | "Dymas" |
| | places | | | globalScore | 0.293 | | windowScore | 0.333 | |
| 0.00% | Narrator intent-glossing | Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns | | analyzedSentences | 51 | | glossingSentenceCount | 6 | | matches | | 0 | "felt like too mundane a word" | | 1 | "seemed woven from living willow branches, still green and growing, their leaves rustling though no wind moved through the clearing" | | 2 | "felt like being read, cover to back, in" | | 3 | "felt like acres" | | 4 | "something between—a tearing, like fabric ripped" | | 5 | "something like concern crossed her ageless f" |
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| 0.00% | "Not X but Y" pattern overuse | Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words | | totalMatches | 4 | | per1kWords | 3.914 | | wordCount | 1022 | | matches | | 0 | "Not cold, precisely, but charged with something" | | 1 | "not the canopy above but a sky of swirling amber" | | 2 | "Not thunder, not wind, but something between" | | 3 | "not wind, but something between" |
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| 83.33% | Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding) | Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses | | thatCount | 2 | | totalSentences | 80 | | matches | | 0 | "carried that wind" | | 1 | "called that—wound" |
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| 100.00% | Paragraph length variance | Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts | | totalParagraphs | 33 | | mean | 30.97 | | std | 18.34 | | cv | 0.592 | | sampleLengths | | 0 | 48 | | 1 | 34 | | 2 | 4 | | 3 | 30 | | 4 | 59 | | 5 | 34 | | 6 | 24 | | 7 | 58 | | 8 | 67 | | 9 | 13 | | 10 | 4 | | 11 | 2 | | 12 | 67 | | 13 | 25 | | 14 | 11 | | 15 | 18 | | 16 | 25 | | 17 | 33 | | 18 | 31 | | 19 | 58 | | 20 | 28 | | 21 | 27 | | 22 | 50 | | 23 | 46 | | 24 | 3 | | 25 | 47 | | 26 | 31 | | 27 | 29 | | 28 | 37 | | 29 | 9 | | 30 | 35 | | 31 | 11 | | 32 | 24 |
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| 100.00% | Passive voice overuse | Target: ≤2% passive sentences | | passiveCount | 0 | | totalSentences | 61 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse | Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs | | pastProgressiveCount | 1 | | totalVerbs | 137 | | matches | | |
| 0.00% | Em-dash & semicolon overuse | Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons | | emDashCount | 12 | | semicolonCount | 0 | | flaggedSentences | 9 | | totalSentences | 80 | | ratio | 0.113 | | matches | | 0 | "Aurora stepped through the gap between two massive trunks—standing stones, she realized, trees grown around ancient monuments—and felt the air change against her skin." | | 1 | "Wildflowers bloomed in riots of colour—bluebells beside sunflowers beside roses that shouldn't exist in the same season, let alone the same month." | | 2 | "The path—if it could be called that—wound between flowering hedges that hadn't been visible from the clearing's edge." | | 3 | "Flowers grew from the thatched roof—not on it, from it, pushing up through the straw in defiant bursts of violet and crimson." | | 4 | "Her eyes—pale lavender, like no human eyes Aurora had ever seen—fixed on them with an intensity that felt like being read, cover to back, in a single glance." | | 5 | "More impossible geometry—the clearing that had seemed twenty paces across now stretched into what felt like acres." | | 6 | "Its surface reflected not the canopy above but a sky of swirling amber and gold—Dymas's sky, Aurora realized with a jolt." | | 7 | "The woman in the water had her face but different eyes—knowing, ancient, sad." | | 8 | "Not thunder, not wind, but something between—a tearing, like fabric ripped at the seams." |
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| 100.00% | Purple prose (modifier overload) | Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking | | wordCount | 801 | | adjectiveStacks | 0 | | stackExamples | (empty) | | adverbCount | 31 | | adverbRatio | 0.03870162297128589 | | lyAdverbCount | 7 | | lyAdverbRatio | 0.008739076154806492 | |
| 100.00% | Repeated phrase echo | Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2) | | totalSentences | 80 | | echoCount | 0 | | echoWords | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Sentence length variance | Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts | | totalSentences | 80 | | mean | 12.78 | | std | 7.28 | | cv | 0.57 | | sampleLengths | | 0 | 24 | | 1 | 24 | | 2 | 2 | | 3 | 16 | | 4 | 16 | | 5 | 4 | | 6 | 17 | | 7 | 7 | | 8 | 6 | | 9 | 8 | | 10 | 22 | | 11 | 14 | | 12 | 15 | | 13 | 27 | | 14 | 1 | | 15 | 1 | | 16 | 5 | | 17 | 18 | | 18 | 6 | | 19 | 18 | | 20 | 18 | | 21 | 4 | | 22 | 18 | | 23 | 17 | | 24 | 22 | | 25 | 6 | | 26 | 22 | | 27 | 13 | | 28 | 4 | | 29 | 2 | | 30 | 4 | | 31 | 18 | | 32 | 17 | | 33 | 28 | | 34 | 16 | | 35 | 9 | | 36 | 9 | | 37 | 2 | | 38 | 18 | | 39 | 7 | | 40 | 11 | | 41 | 7 | | 42 | 21 | | 43 | 12 | | 44 | 12 | | 45 | 19 | | 46 | 6 | | 47 | 17 | | 48 | 35 | | 49 | 12 |
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| 80.42% | Sentence opener variety | Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers | | consecutiveRepeats | 4 | | diversityRatio | 0.5125 | | totalSentences | 80 | | uniqueOpeners | 41 | |
| 59.52% | Adverb-first sentence starts | Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb | | adverbCount | 1 | | totalSentences | 56 | | matches | | 0 | "More impossible geometry—the clearing that" |
| | ratio | 0.018 | |
| 100.00% | Pronoun-first sentence starts | Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun | | pronounCount | 5 | | totalSentences | 56 | | matches | | 0 | "Its walls seemed woven from" | | 1 | "Her eyes—pale lavender, like no" | | 2 | "She moved past them into" | | 3 | "Its surface reflected not the" | | 4 | "She looked at Aurora." |
| | ratio | 0.089 | |
| 49.29% | Subject-first sentence starts | Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject | | subjectCount | 46 | | totalSentences | 56 | | matches | | 0 | "The oaks bent inward, their" | | 1 | "Aurora stepped through the gap" | | 2 | "The Heartstone pendant warmed against" | | 3 | "The violet glow of their" | | 4 | "The clearing spread before them" | | 5 | "Wildflowers bloomed in riots of" | | 6 | "The grass beneath Aurora's boots" | | 7 | "Each step forward sent ripples" | | 8 | "Nyx's voice carried that wind-whisper" | | 9 | "Aurora touched the Fae blade" | | 10 | "The path—if it could be" | | 11 | "Aurora pushed through, branches catching" | | 12 | "The pendant's warmth increased." | | 13 | "A cottage sat in the" | | 14 | "Its walls seemed woven from" | | 15 | "Windows glowed with soft amber" | | 16 | "Flowers grew from the thatched" | | 17 | "Nyx drifted forward, their shadow-form" | | 18 | "Aurora followed their gaze." | | 19 | "The cottage's entrance stood open," |
| | ratio | 0.821 | |
| 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 | 31 | | technicalSentenceCount | 9 | | matches | | 0 | "The Heartstone pendant warmed against her collarbone, pulsing once, twice, then settling into a steady thrum." | | 1 | "Wildflowers bloomed in riots of colour—bluebells beside sunflowers beside roses that shouldn't exist in the same season, let alone the same month." | | 2 | "The path—if it could be called that—wound between flowering hedges that hadn't been visible from the clearing's edge." | | 3 | "Aurora pushed through, branches catching at her jacket, releasing scents of honeysuckle and something spiced she couldn't name." | | 4 | "Its walls seemed woven from living willow branches, still green and growing, their leaves rustling though no wind moved through the clearing." | | 5 | "The cottage's entrance stood open, and sitting on the threshold was a woman who made Aurora's breath catch." | | 6 | "Silver hair cascaded down her back, catching the strange filtered light and throwing it back in prisms." | | 7 | "Nyx glided alongside, their form flickering between solid and incorporeal as though the grove's strange atmosphere affected even them." | | 8 | "Trees Aurora hadn't noticed before revealed themselves: willows with branches that moved like reaching fingers, an ash tree with bark that shimmered silver, oak…" |
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| 48.08% | Useless dialogue additions | Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments | | totalTags | 13 | | uselessAdditionCount | 2 | | matches | | 0 | "Isolde didn't, but her words rang clear" | | 1 | "Isolde said, but her voice had lost its musical quality, gone flat and urgent" |
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| 87.50% | Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy) | Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags | | totalTags | 3 | | fancyCount | 2 | | fancyTags | | 0 | "she breathed (breathe)" | | 1 | "Isolde continued (continue)" |
| | dialogueSentences | 32 | | tagDensity | 0.094 | | leniency | 0.188 | | rawRatio | 0.667 | | effectiveRatio | 0.125 | |