Run: 2026-04-25-01KQ2G844MN033JKPW8V0NG7FB

Run Details

Model:: DeepSeek V4 Flash
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 19.5s
Cost:: $0.000424
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)
40.94%	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)
100.00%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
71.50%	Name drop frequency	(details)
100.00%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
2.18%	"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)
65.92%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
0.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
83.08%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
76.92%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Technical jargon density	(details)
19.74%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
78.6758%	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 path to Isolde's grove twisted through Richmond Park in ways the map insisted were impossible. Aurora had walked this route three times before, always at dusk when the light played tricks, but never with company.

Eva walked at her side, breath misting in the cooling air. Behind them, Malcolm muttered something about the path shifting since they'd last looked. The trees thickened, oaks bending toward each other like whispered secrets until their branches formed a canopy that swallowed the last traces of London's amber glow.

"There," Aurora said, pointing to a break in the undergrowth where ivy hung like curtains.

The air changed as they pushed through. It lost the metallic tang of city pollution and took on a sweetness she couldn't name—honeysuckle and rain on warm stone and something else, something that made her teeth ache with the memory of childhood summers that never happened.

Eva stopped first. "Rory."

The grove opened before them like a held breath released.

Ancient oaks stood in a circle, their trunks so wide it would take three people hand to hand to reach around. But it was the space between them that caught Aurora's attention. The air shimmered there, a distortion like heat haze on asphalt, except the evening air held no warmth. The standing stones nested at the oaks' roots, covered in moss and spiraling carvings that seemed to move when she looked at them directly.

"This isn't right," Malcolm said, his voice hushed. "These trees—they weren't here last week. I jog through this park every morning."

The ground beneath their feet felt different. Springy, carpeted with moss so deep and green it looked like velvet. Wildflowers bloomed in colors Aurora had never seen—blue that verged on purple bleeding into gold that seemed to hold its own inner light. The petals trembled as if stirred by a breeze none of them felt.

"Ssh," Aurora said, and the sound died in her throat.

The grove breathed around them.

Not a metaphor. The air shifted in long, slow cycles, pulling in and pushing out against her skin. The light changed with each breath, dimming and brightening like lungs filling with luminescence. The standing stones pulsed—a beat Aurora felt in her chest rather than heard.

"Look at the sky," Eva whispered.

Above the clearing, the canopy parted to reveal a sky that couldn't exist above Richmond. Deep purple streaked with ribbons of silver-green, like aurora borealis caught in permanent motion. A crescent moon hung there, too large, too close, its surface etched with patterns that resolved into the same spiraling carvings as the stones.

"Time moves differently here," Aurora said, the words coming from somewhere she didn't recognize. "An hour inside can be minutes or days outside."

"How do you know that?" Malcolm asked.

Aurora touched the Heartstone Pendant at her throat. It pulsed warm against her skin, a heartbeat that matched the grove's rhythm. "She told me. In a dream, or—" She shook her head. "I don't know how I know. I just do."

They moved deeper into the circle.

The flowers parted before their feet, closing again behind them like water around a stone. The moss made no sound beneath their steps. Silence pressed in, not empty but full, as if the grove was listening. Waiting.

At the center, a pool of still water reflected the impossible sky. No ripples disturbed its surface despite the breeze that stirred Aurora's hair. She knelt beside it, her reflection staring back with eyes that held a faint lavender glow at the edges.

"Don't touch it," Malcolm said.

"I wasn't going to."

But her hand reached out anyway, fingers hovering an inch above the surface. The water responded, rising in a thin column to meet her skin. Cold. Not the cold of winter or ice, but a cold that spoke of deep places and old things. The cold of stone that had never known sunlight.

The water wrapped around her fingers like liquid silver, and she saw—

A figure in silver, sitting on a throne of roots. A city of spires that pierced a sky of bleeding amber. A door of black stone opening onto darkness that stared back. A man made of shadow with eyes like violet stars. Herself, standing at the edge of something vast and hungry, holding a blade that glowed with borrowed moonlight.

—and then the water fell back, and she was kneeling in the grove with Eva's hand on her shoulder.

"You went somewhere," Eva said. "Your eyes went white."

"I saw things." Aurora's voice came out rough. "The Seer. A city. A—a door. And Nyx."

"The shadow thing?" Malcolm said. "You saw it?"

"Him. Nyx is—" She stood, her legs unsteady. "He was human once. Before the Veil took him."

"How do you know that?"

"I don't know." She looked down at her fingers, still wet from the pool. "I don't know how I know anything in this place."

The grove seemed to lean closer, its attention focused on them with an intelligence that made Aurora's skin prickle. The carvings on the standing stones glowed faintly, their spiral patterns rotating in her peripheral vision.

"We should leave," Malcolm said.

"We can't," Eva replied. "Look."

The path they'd entered through was gone. The ivy curtains hung where they'd pushed through, but beyond them, the undergrowth stretched in directions that hadn't existed before—a forest of silver-barked trees and flowers that pulsed with their own inner fire.

"In here," Aurora said, "the way out finds you. It doesn't stay put."

"That's not comforting," Malcolm said.

"It wasn't meant to be."

Aurora turned in a slow circle, the Heartstone warm against her skin. The grove's attention shifted, settling somewhere behind her. She looked over her shoulder.

At the edge of the pool, a woman stood.

Silver hair to her waist. Eyes the color of lavender smoke. No footprints in the moss where she stood.

"Welcome," Isolde said, her voice carrying the weight of centuries, "to my home. I've been expecting you, Aurora Carter. We have much to discuss before the solstice claims what it's owed."

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	19
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	31
tagDensity	0.613
leniency	1
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

100.00%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount	1016
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)

40.94%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

1016

totalAiIsms

found

word	"shimmered"
count	1

word	"warmth"
count	1

word	"velvet"
count	1

word	"trembled"
count	1

word	"pulsed"
count	3

word	"etched"
count	1

word	"resolved"
count	1

word	"silence"
count	1

word	"comforting"
count	1

word	"weight"
count	1

highlights

0	"shimmered"
1	"warmth"
2	"velvet"
3	"trembled"
4	"pulsed"
5	"etched"
6	"resolved"
7	"silence"
8	"comforting"
9	"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	76
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	89
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	40
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1011
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	16
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

71.50%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

828

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.57

worstName

"Aurora"

maxWindowNameDensity

2.5

worstWindowName

"Aurora"

discoveredNames

Isolde	2
Richmond	2
Park	1
Malcolm	7
London	1
Aurora	13
Heartstone	2
Pendant	1
Eva	6

persons

0	"Isolde"
1	"Malcolm"
2	"Aurora"
3	"Eva"

places

0	"Richmond"
1	"Park"
2	"London"

globalScore

0.715

windowScore

0.833

100.00%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"looked like velvet"

2.18%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches

per1kWords

1.978

wordCount

1011

matches

0	"not empty but full, as if the grove was listening"
1	"Not the cold of winter or ice, but a cold"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"flowers that pulsed"

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

23.51

std

18.86

0.802

sampleLengths

0	36
1	50
2	15
3	46
4	4
5	10
6	74
7	21
8	55
9	10
10	5
11	45
12	6
13	53
14	23
15	7
16	41
17	6
18	37
19	43
20	5
21	4
22	53
23	12
24	60
25	19
26	9
27	16
28	8
29	17
30	5
31	24
32	35
33	5
34	5
35	40
36	13
37	5
38	5
39	25
40	9
41	19
42	31

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

146

matches

0	"was listening"
1	"was kneeling"

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.067

matches

0	"It lost the metallic tang of city pollution and took on a sweetness she couldn't name—honeysuckle and rain on warm stone and something else, something that made her teeth ache with the memory of childhood summers that never happened."
1	"Wildflowers bloomed in colors Aurora had never seen—blue that verged on purple bleeding into gold that seemed to hold its own inner light."
2	"The standing stones pulsed—a beat Aurora felt in her chest rather than heard."
3	"The water wrapped around her fingers like liquid silver, and she saw—"
4	"—and then the water fell back, and she was kneeling in the grove with Eva's hand on her shoulder."
5	"The ivy curtains hung where they'd pushed through, but beyond them, the undergrowth stretched in directions that hadn't existed before—a forest of silver-barked trees and flowers that pulsed with their own inner fire."

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	321
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	7
adverbRatio	0.021806853582554516
lyAdverbCount	1
lyAdverbRatio	0.003115264797507788

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	89
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

11.36

std

7.04

0.619

sampleLengths

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

65.92%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	13
diversityRatio	0.48314606741573035
totalSentences	89
uniqueOpeners	43

0.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount	0
totalSentences	65
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"It lost the metallic tang"
1	"It pulsed warm against her"
2	"She shook her head"
3	"They moved deeper into the"
4	"She knelt beside it, her"
5	"Herself, standing at the edge"
6	"She stood, her legs unsteady"
7	"She looked down at her"
8	"She looked over her shoulder."

ratio

0.138

83.08%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The path to Isolde's grove"
1	"Aurora had walked this route"
2	"Eva walked at her side,"
3	"The trees thickened, oaks bending"
4	"Aurora said, pointing to a"
5	"The air changed as they"
6	"It lost the metallic tang"
7	"Eva stopped first."
8	"The grove opened before them"
9	"The air shimmered there, a"
10	"The standing stones nested at"
11	"Malcolm said, his voice hushed"
12	"The ground beneath their feet"
13	"Wildflowers bloomed in colors Aurora"
14	"The petals trembled as if"
15	"Aurora said, and the sound"
16	"The grove breathed around them."
17	"The air shifted in long,"
18	"The light changed with each"
19	"The standing stones pulsed—a beat"

ratio

0.754

76.92%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"—and then the water fell"

ratio

0.015

0.00%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"The trees thickened, oaks bending toward each other like whispered secrets until their branches formed a canopy that swallowed the last traces of London's amber…"
1	"It lost the metallic tang of city pollution and took on a sweetness she couldn't name—honeysuckle and rain on warm stone and something else, something that made…"
2	"But it was the space between them that caught Aurora's attention."
3	"A crescent moon hung there, too large, too close, its surface etched with patterns that resolved into the same spiraling carvings as the stones."
4	"It pulsed warm against her skin, a heartbeat that matched the grove's rhythm."
5	"Silence pressed in, not empty but full, as if the grove was listening."
6	"She knelt beside it, her reflection staring back with eyes that held a faint lavender glow at the edges."
7	"Herself, standing at the edge of something vast and hungry, holding a blade that glowed with borrowed moonlight."
8	"The grove seemed to lean closer, its attention focused on them with an intelligence that made Aurora's skin prickle."
9	"The ivy curtains hung where they'd pushed through, but beyond them, the undergrowth stretched in directions that hadn't existed before—a forest of silver-barked…"

19.74%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Malcolm said, his voice hushed"
1	"Aurora said, the words coming from somewhere she didn't recognize"
2	"She stood, her legs unsteady"
3	"Isolde said, her voice carrying the weight of centuries,"

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Eva whispered (whisper)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.452

leniency

0.903

rawRatio

0.071

effectiveRatio

0.065

78.6758%