| 100.00% | Adverbs in dialogue tags | Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs | | totalTags | 5 | | adverbTagCount | 0 | | adverbTags | (empty) | | dialogueSentences | 23 | | tagDensity | 0.217 | | leniency | 0.435 | | rawRatio | 0 | | effectiveRatio | 0 | |
| 100.00% | AI-ism adverb frequency | Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked) | | wordCount | 1032 | | totalAiIsmAdverbs | 0 | | found | (empty) | | highlights | (empty) | |
| 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) | |
| 27.33% | AI-ism word frequency | Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked) | | wordCount | 1032 | | totalAiIsms | 15 | | found | | | highlights | | 0 | "warmth" | | 1 | "chill" | | 2 | "pulsed" | | 3 | "whisper" | | 4 | "loomed" | | 5 | "stomach" | | 6 | "lurched" | | 7 | "flickered" | | 8 | "shattered" | | 9 | "silence" | | 10 | "unreadable" | | 11 | "glistening" |
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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 | 97 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Filter word density | Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words | | filterCount | 0 | | hedgeCount | 0 | | narrationSentences | 97 | | filterMatches | (empty) | | hedgeMatches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Gibberish response detection | Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words) | | analyzedSentences | 115 | | gibberishSentences | 0 | | adjustedGibberishSentences | 0 | | longSentenceCount | 0 | | runOnParagraphCount | 0 | | giantParagraphCount | 0 | | wordSaladCount | 0 | | repetitionLoopCount | 0 | | controlTokenCount | 0 | | maxSentenceWordsSeen | 35 | | ratio | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 0.00% | Markdown formatting overuse | Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting | | markdownSpans | 33 | | markdownWords | 130 | | totalWords | 1008 | | ratio | 0.129 | | matches | | 0 | "absence" | | 1 | "\"This place remembers me.\"" | | 2 | "speak" | | 3 | "unfold" | | 4 | "\"The last time I stood here, the stones were younger.\"" | | 5 | "Grown" | | 6 | "\"Come. The grove doesn’t like to be kept waiting.\"" | | 7 | "leaned" | | 8 | "sighed" | | 9 | "\"It sings.\"" | | 10 | "does" | | 11 | "\"The Veil is thin here. Like skin over a wound.\"" | | 12 | "\"Wear it. It’ll keep the worse things from noticing you.\"" | | 13 | "worse things" | | 14 | "watched" | | 15 | "\"That wasn’t here before.\"" | | 16 | "\"No. It wasn’t.\"" | | 17 | "hungry" | | 18 | "\"Don’t look too long. Some mirrors are doors.\"" | | 19 | "\"We’re not alone.\"" | | 20 | "scent" | | 21 | "they" | | 22 | "\"Ah. The grove’s guardians. How… *devoted* of them to greet us.\"" | | 23 | "\"Devoted or starving?\"" | | 24 | "\"The same thing everything wants, little mortal. *A taste.*\"" | | 25 | "unfurled" | | 26 | "shattered" | | 27 | "\"Well. That was… unexpected.\"" | | 28 | "\"You’ve been holding out on us, half-blood.\"" | | 29 | "\"The Veil is bleeding.\"" | | 30 | "\"Someone’s been *digging*.\"" | | 31 | "\"The same thing you’re after, Aurora Carter.\"" | | 32 | "\"A way into Hel.\"" |
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| 100.00% | Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks) | Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks | | totalAttributions | 11 | | unquotedAttributions | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 46.91% | Name drop frequency | Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words | | totalMentions | 44 | | wordCount | 873 | | uniqueNames | 9 | | maxNameDensity | 2.06 | | worstName | "Rory" | | maxWindowNameDensity | 3.5 | | worstWindowName | "Rory" | | discoveredNames | | Richmond | 1 | | Park | 1 | | London | 1 | | Heartstone | 2 | | Rory | 18 | | Isolde | 9 | | Fae | 4 | | Resting | 1 | | Nyx | 7 |
| | persons | | 0 | "Heartstone" | | 1 | "Rory" | | 2 | "Isolde" | | 3 | "Nyx" |
| | places | | 0 | "Richmond" | | 1 | "Park" | | 2 | "London" | | 3 | "Fae" |
| | globalScore | 0.469 | | windowScore | 0.5 | |
| 22.88% | Narrator intent-glossing | Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns | | analyzedSentences | 59 | | glossingSentenceCount | 3 | | matches | | 0 | "quite sunlight" | | 1 | "something between a smile and a secret" | | 2 | "looked like glass" |
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| 0.00% | "Not X but Y" pattern overuse | Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words | | totalMatches | 3 | | per1kWords | 2.976 | | wordCount | 1008 | | matches | | 0 | "not green but shades of copper" | | 1 | "not tight enough to hurt, but firm" | | 2 | "not at the guardians, but at the pool" |
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| 100.00% | Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding) | Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses | | thatCount | 0 | | totalSentences | 115 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Paragraph length variance | Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts | | totalParagraphs | 39 | | mean | 25.85 | | std | 22.61 | | cv | 0.875 | | sampleLengths | | 0 | 9 | | 1 | 86 | | 2 | 49 | | 3 | 18 | | 4 | 59 | | 5 | 49 | | 6 | 4 | | 7 | 10 | | 8 | 26 | | 9 | 8 | | 10 | 86 | | 11 | 10 | | 12 | 54 | | 13 | 7 | | 14 | 7 | | 15 | 51 | | 16 | 2 | | 17 | 21 | | 18 | 17 | | 19 | 5 | | 20 | 32 | | 21 | 5 | | 22 | 60 | | 23 | 17 | | 24 | 16 | | 25 | 38 | | 26 | 11 | | 27 | 15 | | 28 | 4 | | 29 | 39 | | 30 | 3 | | 31 | 47 | | 32 | 1 | | 33 | 21 | | 34 | 7 | | 35 | 14 | | 36 | 39 | | 37 | 17 | | 38 | 44 |
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| 100.00% | Passive voice overuse | Target: ≤2% passive sentences | | passiveCount | 1 | | totalSentences | 97 | | matches | | |
| 100.00% | Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse | Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs | | pastProgressiveCount | 0 | | totalVerbs | 148 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 0.00% | Em-dash & semicolon overuse | Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons | | emDashCount | 14 | | semicolonCount | 0 | | flaggedSentences | 9 | | totalSentences | 115 | | ratio | 0.078 | | matches | | 0 | "One step, they stood beneath the skeletal branches of Richmond Park’s winter oaks, the next—warmth, like breath against the back of the neck." | | 1 | "Nyx coalesced beside her, their form rippling from smoke to solid—a tall, featureless silhouette with violet eyes like embers in a void." | | 2 | "Nyx’s fingers—if they could be called fingers—brushed a low-hanging branch." | | 3 | "**\"The Veil is thin here. Like skin over a wound.\"** She plucked a flower from the air—a bloom of deep indigo that hadn’t been there a second before—and tucked it behind Rory’s ear." | | 4 | "Rory crouched at the pool’s edge, the Fae blade—cold always, but colder now—pressed against her palm." | | 5 | "Then—the *scent*." | | 6 | "Things with too many limbs, their bodies a patchwork of bark and sinew, their faces—if they could be called faces—smooth and blank as river stones." | | 7 | "The thing dissolved into a shower of petals—black as coal, reeking of decay." | | 8 | "The water—if it was water—*shattered*." |
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| 100.00% | Purple prose (modifier overload) | Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking | | wordCount | 896 | | adjectiveStacks | 0 | | stackExamples | (empty) | | adverbCount | 33 | | adverbRatio | 0.036830357142857144 | | lyAdverbCount | 4 | | lyAdverbRatio | 0.004464285714285714 | |
| 100.00% | Repeated phrase echo | Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2) | | totalSentences | 115 | | echoCount | 0 | | echoWords | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Sentence length variance | Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts | | totalSentences | 115 | | mean | 8.77 | | std | 6.66 | | cv | 0.759 | | sampleLengths | | 0 | 9 | | 1 | 23 | | 2 | 7 | | 3 | 9 | | 4 | 14 | | 5 | 10 | | 6 | 12 | | 7 | 2 | | 8 | 9 | | 9 | 22 | | 10 | 17 | | 11 | 10 | | 12 | 11 | | 13 | 7 | | 14 | 17 | | 15 | 2 | | 16 | 1 | | 17 | 15 | | 18 | 15 | | 19 | 9 | | 20 | 9 | | 21 | 6 | | 22 | 3 | | 23 | 22 | | 24 | 4 | | 25 | 5 | | 26 | 4 | | 27 | 6 | | 28 | 4 | | 29 | 10 | | 30 | 14 | | 31 | 2 | | 32 | 8 | | 33 | 3 | | 34 | 4 | | 35 | 13 | | 36 | 23 | | 37 | 33 | | 38 | 10 | | 39 | 7 | | 40 | 3 | | 41 | 33 | | 42 | 14 | | 43 | 2 | | 44 | 2 | | 45 | 3 | | 46 | 3 | | 47 | 4 | | 48 | 4 | | 49 | 3 |
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| 55.94% | Sentence opener variety | Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers | | consecutiveRepeats | 9 | | diversityRatio | 0.3826086956521739 | | totalSentences | 115 | | uniqueOpeners | 44 | |
| 100.00% | Adverb-first sentence starts | Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb | | adverbCount | 3 | | totalSentences | 81 | | matches | | 0 | "Just the sudden *absence* of" | | 1 | "Only pulsed, slow and steady," | | 2 | "Then, one by one, they" |
| | ratio | 0.037 | |
| 100.00% | Pronoun-first sentence starts | Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun | | pronounCount | 14 | | totalSentences | 81 | | matches | | 0 | "She flexed her fingers, half-expecting" | | 1 | "Their voice didn’t so much" | | 2 | "They moved on their own." | | 3 | "She didn’t need to." | | 4 | "She moved like she was" | | 5 | "She plucked a flower from" | | 6 | "She already knew." | | 7 | "They moved in jerky, unnatural" | | 8 | "Their fingers (too long, too" | | 9 | "Their shadow *unfurled*, swallowing the" | | 10 | "She slashed the Fae blade" | | 11 | "She knelt by the pool’s" | | 12 | "She looked at Rory, her" | | 13 | "She held out her hand" |
| | ratio | 0.173 | |
| 46.42% | Subject-first sentence starts | Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject | | subjectCount | 67 | | totalSentences | 81 | | matches | | 0 | "The air thickened the moment" | | 1 | "The grove didn’t announce itself" | | 2 | "Rory’s boots sank into moss" | | 3 | "She flexed her fingers, half-expecting" | | 4 | "Nyx coalesced beside her, their" | | 5 | "Their voice didn’t so much" | | 6 | "Rory exhaled, fog curling from" | | 7 | "The oak’s roots twisted above" | | 8 | "Isolde slipped between them, her" | | 9 | "The deeper they walked, the" | | 10 | "Gravity tugged sideways, then righted" | | 11 | "Rory’s stomach lurched." | | 12 | "The trees here grew in" | | 13 | "They moved on their own." | | 14 | "Eva would’ve loved this." | | 15 | "The thought hit like a" | | 16 | "Rory shoved it down." | | 17 | "Nyx’s fingers—if they could be" | | 18 | "The moment they touched, the" | | 19 | "Isolde didn’t answer." |
| | ratio | 0.827 | |
| 0.00% | Subordinate conjunction sentence starts | Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction | | subConjCount | 0 | | totalSentences | 81 | | matches | (empty) | | ratio | 0 | |
| 100.00% | Technical jargon density | Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns | | analyzedSentences | 35 | | technicalSentenceCount | 2 | | matches | | 0 | "The pool’s surface roiled, the not-Rory in the water smiling now, her lips parting to reveal teeth filed to points." | | 1 | "Resting in her palm was a single, thorned vine, its tip glistening with the same crimson as the pool." |
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| 25.00% | Useless dialogue additions | Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments | | totalTags | 5 | | uselessAdditionCount | 1 | | matches | | 0 | "She looked, her pale eyes unreadable" |
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| 63.04% | Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy) | Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags | | totalTags | 2 | | fancyCount | 2 | | fancyTags | | 0 | "Their voice didn’t (do)" | | 1 | "Rory muttered (mutter)" |
| | dialogueSentences | 23 | | tagDensity | 0.087 | | leniency | 0.174 | | rawRatio | 1 | | effectiveRatio | 0.174 | |