Run: 2026-04-25-01KQ2FDKNAHN8SY0C5Q5ZBYX6C

Run Details

Model:: DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 24.1s
Cost:: $0.000638
Provider:: DeepSeek

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
49.38%	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)
0.00%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
76.47%	Name drop frequency	(details)
100.00%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
0.00%	"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)
55.81%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
0.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
17.97%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
31.25%	Technical jargon density	(details)
100.00%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
74.3629%	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 autumn air in Richmond Park carried the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves. Rory pulled her jacket tighter, the Heartstone Pendant warm against her collarbone as Nyx drifted beside her, a patch of moving shadow that consumed the pale afternoon light.

"You're certain she's here?" Rory asked, stepping over a gnarled root.

Nyx's voice came like wind through dry reeds. *Isolde is always where she chooses to be. The question is whether she chooses to be found.*

The path ahead looked ordinary enough — a deer track winding between ancient oaks, their branches bare against a grey sky. But the pendant pulsed, a slow heartbeat against her skin, and the air grew thick. Heavy. Like walking through water.

Rory stopped. The world ahead shimmered.

Not a heat haze. Something older. The air bent around a point between two oak trees, light curving inward like water circling a drain. The standing stones the codex mentioned — she spotted them now, half-hidden beneath moss and ivy, their surfaces carved with spirals that seemed to shift when she looked directly at them.

"What is this?"

*A threshold,* Nyx said. *The Veil grows thin here. Isolde has woven herself into the gap.*

Rory reached out. Her fingers touched nothing — then everything. The air resisted, then gave, and a wave of scent hit her: wild roses and honey, crushed herbs, something ancient and green. She stepped through.

The world turned.

The grove bloomed with impossible colour. Wildflowers carpeted the ground in shades that didn't exist in any garden she'd known — deep indigos that pulsed like bruises, crimsons that glowed from within, blossoms the colour of twilight. They grew in spirals around the clearing, their stems moving in a breeze she couldn't feel.

Above, the sky had changed. The grey autumn canopy was gone, replaced by a dome of pale gold, as if the sun had decided to linger here alone. Motes of light drifted through the air like dust motes, but they moved with purpose, tracing lazy circles around the oak standing stones.

The stones themselves were massive — taller than a man, older than memory. Their carvings weren't Celtic knots or runes. They were *living*. Spirals crawled across the surfaces, rearranging themselves as she watched, forming patterns that tugged at the edges of her understanding.

Rory's breath came shallow. "This isn't Richmond Park."

*This is Isolde's grove,* Nyx said, solidifying beside her into a humanoid shape of deepest shadow. Their violet eyes swept the clearing. *A pocket between. A place that remembers what the world forgot.*

A stream ran through the centre of the grove, its water silver and black. Rory knelt. The water reflected her face, but the reflection was wrong — her hair was shorter, her eyes older, and behind her shoulder stood a figure that wasn't there.

She jerked back.

*Time moves differently here,* Nyx said. *What you saw might be what was. Or what will be. The grove does not distinguish.*

"Comforting."

Rory stood, wiping her palms on her jeans. The pendant had gone still, as if the grove's magic had quieted it. She moved deeper, her footsteps silent on the moss. The wildflowers swayed toward her as she passed, their petals brushing her ankles.

A circle of mushrooms grew at the grove's heart — not the pale toadstools of English woods, but things of deep purple and rust, their caps speckled with phosphorescent dots. They glowed faintly in the golden light, casting small pools of luminescence on the ground.

Rory stepped into the circle.

The world *tilted*.

Sounds came from everywhere at once — whispers in languages she didn't know, a bell chiming somewhere distant, the crackle of a fire that wasn't burning. The standing stones flared, their carvings blazing white, and Rory felt something press against her mind. Not hostile. *Curious.*

*You should not have done that.*

Nyx's voice was tight, strained. The shadow at the edge of the grove had drawn inward, compacting into a denser form.

"Why? What did I do?"

*You announced your presence.* Nyx gestured with a hand of shifting darkness. *The grove knows you now. It will remember your step, your scent, the shape of your soul.*

From the far end of the clearing, between two standing stones, a figure emerged.

She moved without sound, her silver hair catching the golden light like water. Her feet left no prints in the soft earth. Her eyes were pale lavender, and they fixed on Rory with an expression that was neither welcome nor warning.

Isolde.

The half-Fae stopped at the edge of the mushroom circle, her gown of pale silk brushing the flowers. She tilted her head, studying Rory the way a scholar studies a text.

"You carry Fae-forged steel," Isolde said. Her voice was melodic, layered, as if two voices spoke as one. "And a Heartstone from Dymas. You have crossed thresholds not meant for mortal feet."

Rory's hand went to the blade at her belt. "I was told you could help me."

"Help." Isolde smiled, but the expression didn't reach her eyes. "I have helped mortals before. It cost me my home, my Court, my place in the eternal dance."

A pause. The motes of light gathered above Isolde's head, forming a crown of drifting luminescence.

"Ask your question, child of the Veil. But know this — answers have weight. And I do not give them freely."

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	3
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	11
tagDensity	0.273
leniency	0.545
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

100.00%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount	889
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)

49.38%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

889

totalAiIsms

found

word	"pulsed"
count	2

word	"shimmered"
count	1

word	"tracing"
count	1

word	"comforting"
count	1

word	"footsteps"
count	1

word	"silk"
count	1

word	"dance"
count	1

word	"weight"
count	1

highlights

0	"pulsed"
1	"shimmered"
2	"tracing"
3	"comforting"
4	"footsteps"
5	"silk"
6	"dance"
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	78
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

(empty)

hedgeMatches

0	"seemed 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
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	31
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

0.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans

markdownWords

totalWords

898

ratio

0.107

matches

0	"Isolde is always where she chooses to be. The question is whether she chooses to be found."
1	"A threshold,"
2	"The Veil grows thin here. Isolde has woven herself into the gap."
3	"living"
4	"This is Isolde's grove,"
5	"A pocket between. A place that remembers what the world forgot."
6	"Time moves differently here,"
7	"What you saw might be what was. Or what will be. The grove does not distinguish."
8	"tilted"
9	"Curious."
10	"You should not have done that."
11	"You announced your presence."
12	"The grove knows you now. It will remember your step, your scent, the shape of your soul."

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	5
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

76.47%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

816

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.47

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Richmond	1
Park	1
Heartstone	1
Pendant	1
Nyx	7
Veil	1
Rory	12
Celtic	1
Isolde	7
English	1

persons

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

places

0	"Richmond"
1	"Park"
2	"English"

globalScore

0.765

windowScore

100.00%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"spirals that seemed to shift when she looked directly at them"

0.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches

per1kWords

2.227

wordCount

898

matches

0	"not the pale toadstools of English woods, but things of deep purple"
1	"neither welcome nor"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	86
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

24.27

std

17.05

0.703

sampleLengths

0	43
1	11
2	25
3	41
4	6
5	55
6	3
7	16
8	35
9	3
10	53
11	51
12	43
13	8
14	33
15	44
16	3
17	22
18	1
19	43
20	45
21	5
22	3
23	45
24	6
25	21
26	5
27	29
28	14
29	41
30	1
31	31
32	32
33	16
34	28
35	16
36	21

100.00%

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

totalVerbs

143

matches

0	"wasn't burning"

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.093

matches

0	"The path ahead looked ordinary enough — a deer track winding between ancient oaks, their branches bare against a grey sky."
1	"The standing stones the codex mentioned — she spotted them now, half-hidden beneath moss and ivy, their surfaces carved with spirals that seemed to shift when she looked directly at them."
2	"Her fingers touched nothing — then everything."
3	"Wildflowers carpeted the ground in shades that didn't exist in any garden she'd known — deep indigos that pulsed like bruises, crimsons that glowed from within, blossoms the colour of twilight."
4	"The stones themselves were massive — taller than a man, older than memory."
5	"The water reflected her face, but the reflection was wrong — her hair was shorter, her eyes older, and behind her shoulder stood a figure that wasn't there."
6	"A circle of mushrooms grew at the grove's heart — not the pale toadstools of English woods, but things of deep purple and rust, their caps speckled with phosphorescent dots."
7	"Sounds came from everywhere at once — whispers in languages she didn't know, a bell chiming somewhere distant, the crackle of a fire that wasn't burning."

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	810
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	13
adverbRatio	0.016049382716049384
lyAdverbCount	3
lyAdverbRatio	0.003703703703703704

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

10.44

std

7.79

0.746

sampleLengths

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

55.81%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	7
diversityRatio	0.38372093023255816
totalSentences	86
uniqueOpeners	33

0.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount	0
totalSentences	69
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Her fingers touched nothing —"
1	"She stepped through."
2	"They grew in spirals around"
3	"Their carvings weren't Celtic knots"
4	"They were living."
5	"Their violet eyes swept the"
6	"She jerked back."
7	"She moved deeper, her footsteps"
8	"They glowed faintly in the"
9	"*You should not have done"
10	"You announced your presence. Nyx"
11	"It will remember your step,"
12	"She moved without sound, her"
13	"Her feet left no prints"
14	"Her eyes were pale lavender,"
15	"She tilted her head, studying"
16	"Her voice was melodic, layered,"

ratio

0.246

17.97%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The autumn air in Richmond"
1	"Rory pulled her jacket tighter,"
2	"Rory asked, stepping over a"
3	"Nyx's voice came like wind"
4	"*Isolde is always where she"
5	"The question is whether she"
6	"The path ahead looked ordinary"
7	"The world ahead shimmered."
8	"The air bent around a"
9	"The standing stones the codex"
10	"A threshold, Nyx said."
11	"*The Veil grows thin here."
12	"Isolde has woven herself into"
13	"Rory reached out."
14	"Her fingers touched nothing —"
15	"The air resisted, then gave,"
16	"She stepped through."
17	"The world turned."
18	"The grove bloomed with impossible"
19	"Wildflowers carpeted the ground in"

ratio

0.884

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	69
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

31.25%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"Rory pulled her jacket tighter, the Heartstone Pendant warm against her collarbone as Nyx drifted beside her, a patch of moving shadow that consumed the pale af…"
1	"The standing stones the codex mentioned — she spotted them now, half-hidden beneath moss and ivy, their surfaces carved with spirals that seemed to shift when s…"
2	"Spirals crawled across the surfaces, rearranging themselves as she watched, forming patterns that tugged at the edges of her understanding."
3	"The water reflected her face, but the reflection was wrong — her hair was shorter, her eyes older, and behind her shoulder stood a figure that wasn't there."
4	"Sounds came from everywhere at once — whispers in languages she didn't know, a bell chiming somewhere distant, the crackle of a fire that wasn't burning."

100.00%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags	3
uselessAdditionCount	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags	2
fancyCount	0
fancyTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	11
tagDensity	0.182
leniency	0.364
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

74.3629%