Run: 2026-07-01-01KWE9MNSF3M2EB519EB7Q2S98

Run Details

Model:: Claude Sonnet 5 (Reasoning, Low)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 34.2s
Cost:: $0.026850
Provider:: Amazon Bedrock

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
95.25%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
0.19%	AI-ism word frequency	(details)
100.00%	Cliché density	(details)
100.00%	Emotion telling (show vs. tell)	(details)
9.97%	Filter word density	(details)
100.00%	Gibberish response detection	(details)
100.00%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
63.90%	Name drop frequency	(details)
0.00%	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)
88.94%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
0.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
91.14%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
92.06%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
83.33%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
60.00%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Technical jargon density	(details)
100.00%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
72.8263%	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 oaks marked the boundary the way a held breath marks the moment before a scream — motionless, deliberate, wrong in a way Rory couldn't name until she stood between two of them and felt the air change texture against her skin.

"Here," Nyx's voice slid out of the shadow pooling at the base of the nearest standing stone. "The Grove doesn't announce itself twice."

"Comforting." Rory adjusted the strap of her bag, the Heartstone Pendant a small warm weight against her collarbone. It hadn't pulsed since they left the flat, which she'd decided to take as a good sign, though nothing about walking into Richmond Park at midnight to find a three-hundred-year-old Fae seer felt particularly good.

She stepped through.

The park vanished. Not faded — vanished, the way a word disappears when you stop thinking it. In its place: a clearing bathed in a light that came from nowhere and everywhere, silver-blue and soft as held water. Wildflowers carpeted the ground in colours that didn't exist in any garden Rory had walked through — blues too deep, a yellow that seemed to hum. She crouched and touched a bloom shaped like a folded hand, and it turned toward her fingers, curious, before uncurling again.

"They're roses," Nyx said, solidifying into their humanoid shape beside her, violet eyes catching the strange light. "Or they were, once. The Grove has opinions about what it wants to grow."

"They shouldn't be blooming. It's November."

"Tell that to the flowers."

Rory straightened, turning slowly. There was no path, exactly, but the trees seemed to lean subtly in one direction, an invitation carved into their posture. She started walking, boots silent on moss that felt more like breathing skin than plant matter. Behind her, no footprints marked the ground — she checked twice, unsettled by the smoothness of it, the way the moss simply forgot she'd been there.

"How long have we been in here?" she asked, because the light hadn't changed and her watch had stopped at the standing stones, frozen at 11:47.

"Wrong question," Nyx said. "Try asking how long we'll have been in here when we leave."

"That's not better."

"No. But it's more honest."

The trees thickened, and with them came sound — not birdsong, not wind, but something like distant chimes struck by no hand, a music that seemed to originate behind her eyes rather than in the air. Rory's pulse ticked up. She'd fought demons in alleyways with a blade colder than winter, and none of it unsettled her the way this quiet, patient wrongness did.

"You feel that?" she asked.

"I feel everything here," Nyx said, and for the first time since she'd known them, their whisper-voice carried something like unease. "This place remembers what I was. Before."

"Aldric."

"Don't." The shadow at their edges flickered, sharpened. "Not here. Names have weight in the Grove. It might decide to keep it."

Rory filed that away with the growing pile of things she wasn't going to ask about until they were somewhere with concrete and streetlights and the comforting stupidity of ordinary danger.

The clearing opened without warning — one moment trees, the next a wide bowl of grass ringed by more standing stones, older-looking than the ones at the boundary, weathered soft as old teeth. In the centre, a pool of water sat black and still, reflecting no sky because there was no sky to reflect, only that same directionless silver light.

"She's not here," Rory said, disappointment sharper than she expected.

"She's always here." Isolde's voice arrived before she did, threading out from between two stones like she'd stepped out of the space itself rather than walked into it. Silver hair pooled around her like poured moonlight, and her lavender eyes found Rory's with an attention that felt physical, a hand pressed flat against her sternum. "You brought the Shadow. Bold. Or foolish. The Grove hasn't decided which."

"The Grove talks to you?" Rory asked.

"The Grove talks to everyone. Few listen." Isolde tilted her head, considering Nyx the way someone might consider a stormcloud deciding whether to break. "You've been waiting a long time to be somewhere that remembers you were human."

Nyx said nothing, but the shadows at their feet drew inward, tightening.

Isolde turned, and where her bare feet crossed the grass, nothing bent, nothing marked — the ground simply accepted her absence of weight. "Come. The water has been restless since the equinox. It wants to show someone something, and I think that someone is you."

Rory followed her toward the black pool, the chiming music swelling faintly as if in anticipation. Up close, the water wasn't still at all — its surface crawled with slow ripples that moved against no wind, patterns like veins beneath dark skin.

"What am I looking for?" Rory crouched at the edge, and the Heartstone Pendant chose that exact moment to pulse — a single hard beat of warmth against her chest, there and gone.

"That." Isolde's smile held no comfort in it. "The stone answers to Hel-fire even here, at the edge of everything. Interesting."

"Interesting bad or interesting fascinating?"

"With Hel, darling, it's rarely one without the other."

The water rippled harder, and for a heartbeat Rory saw something in its depths — not a reflection, but a place: amber sky, vineyards rolling toward a horizon that curved wrong, too close, like the world had been folded smaller than it should be. Then it was gone, swallowed back into black, and the chiming sound cut off entirely, leaving a silence so complete Rory could hear her own pulse hammering in her ears.

"Dymas," Nyx said quietly, the word landing like a stone dropped into that same silence. "That was Dymas."

"The Grove doesn't show idle things." Isolde straightened, and somewhere in the trees behind them, the strange music started again, hesitant, like it too had been holding its breath. "Someone in Gluttony's court is thinking of you, Aurora Carter. Or something wearing a memory of you is walking their halls."

Rory's hand found the pendant, closed around its sudden warmth.

"That's not remotely comforting."

"No," Isolde agreed, turning back toward the ring of ancient stones, silver hair swaying like something with its own private wind. "But you didn't come to the Grove for comfort. You came for truth. I'm merely sorry it arrived with teeth."

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"Nyx said quietly [quietly]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.459

leniency

0.919

rawRatio

0.059

effectiveRatio

0.054

95.25%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

1052

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)

0.19%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

1052

totalAiIsms

found

word	"comforting"
count	3

word	"weight"
count	3

word	"pulsed"
count	1

word	"unsettled"
count	2

word	"pulse"
count	3

word	"whisper"
count	1

word	"flickered"
count	1

word	"anticipation"
count	1

word	"warmth"
count	2

word	"fascinating"
count	1

word	"depths"
count	1

word	"silence"
count	2

highlights

0	"comforting"
1	"weight"
2	"pulsed"
3	"unsettled"
4	"pulse"
5	"whisper"
6	"flickered"
7	"anticipation"
8	"warmth"
9	"fascinating"
10	"depths"
11	"silence"

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

narrationSentences

matches

0	"f in anticipation"

9.97%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

"watch"

hedgeMatches

0	"seemed to"

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words)

analyzedSentences	63
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	43
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1062
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	14
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

63.90%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

813

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.72

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Rory	14
Heartstone	2
Pendant	2
Richmond	1
Park	1
Fae	1
Nyx	7
Isolde	6
Silver	1

persons

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

places

0	"Richmond"
1	"Park"

globalScore

0.639

windowScore

0.667

0.00%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"yellow that seemed to hum"
1	"music that seemed to originate behind her eyes rather than in the air"
2	"something like distant chimes struck by no h"
3	"something like unease"

0.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches

per1kWords

2.825

wordCount

1062

matches

0	"not birdsong, not wind, but something like distant chimes struck by no hand, a music"
1	"not wind, but something like distant chimes struck by no hand, a music"
2	"not a reflection, but a place: amber sky, vineyards rolling toward a horizon"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	63
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

28.7

std

23.27

0.811

sampleLengths

0	42
1	23
2	53
3	3
4	85
5	31
6	6
7	5
8	67
9	26
10	16
11	3
12	5
13	64
14	5
15	28
16	1
17	22
18	31
19	60
20	10
21	67
22	7
23	38
24	12
25	45
26	42
27	33
28	21
29	5
30	9
31	74
32	18
33	50
34	10
35	4
36	41

88.94%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"been folded"
1	"was gone"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	145
matches	(empty)

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.159

matches

0	"The oaks marked the boundary the way a held breath marks the moment before a scream — motionless, deliberate, wrong in a way Rory couldn't name until she stood between two of them and felt the air change texture against her skin."
1	"Not faded — vanished, the way a word disappears when you stop thinking it."
2	"Wildflowers carpeted the ground in colours that didn't exist in any garden Rory had walked through — blues too deep, a yellow that seemed to hum."
3	"Behind her, no footprints marked the ground — she checked twice, unsettled by the smoothness of it, the way the moss simply forgot she'd been there."
4	"The trees thickened, and with them came sound — not birdsong, not wind, but something like distant chimes struck by no hand, a music that seemed to originate behind her eyes rather than in the air."
5	"The clearing opened without warning — one moment trees, the next a wide bowl of grass ringed by more standing stones, older-looking than the ones at the boundary, weathered soft as old teeth."
6	"Isolde turned, and where her bare feet crossed the grass, nothing bent, nothing marked — the ground simply accepted her absence of weight."
7	"Up close, the water wasn't still at all — its surface crawled with slow ripples that moved against no wind, patterns like veins beneath dark skin."
8	"\"What am I looking for?\" Rory crouched at the edge, and the Heartstone Pendant chose that exact moment to pulse — a single hard beat of warmth against her chest, there and gone."
9	"The water rippled harder, and for a heartbeat Rory saw something in its depths — not a reflection, but a place: amber sky, vineyards rolling toward a horizon that curved wrong, too close, like the world had been folded smaller than it should be."

91.14%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount

809

adjectiveStacks

stackExamples

0	"same directionless silver light."

adverbCount

adverbRatio

0.04326328800988875

lyAdverbCount

lyAdverbRatio

0.012360939431396786

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	63
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

16.86

std

10.66

0.632

sampleLengths

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

92.06%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	2
diversityRatio	0.5714285714285714
totalSentences	63
uniqueOpeners	36

83.33%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Then it was gone, swallowed"

ratio

0.025

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"It hadn't pulsed since they"
1	"She stepped through."
2	"She crouched and touched a"
3	"She started walking, boots silent"
4	"she asked, because the light"
5	"She'd fought demons in alleyways"

ratio

0.15

60.00%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The oaks marked the boundary"
1	"Nyx's voice slid out of"
2	"Rory adjusted the strap of"
3	"It hadn't pulsed since they"
4	"She stepped through."
5	"The park vanished."
6	"Wildflowers carpeted the ground in"
7	"She crouched and touched a"
8	"Nyx said, solidifying into their"
9	"Rory straightened, turning slowly."
10	"She started walking, boots silent"
11	"she asked, because the light"
12	"The trees thickened, and with"
13	"Rory's pulse ticked up."
14	"She'd fought demons in alleyways"
15	"Nyx said, and for the"
16	"The shadow at their edges"
17	"Rory filed that away with"
18	"The clearing opened without warning"
19	"Rory said, disappointment sharper than"

ratio

0.8

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	40
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

0.00%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"In its place: a clearing bathed in a light that came from nowhere and everywhere, silver-blue and soft as held water."
1	"She started walking, boots silent on moss that felt more like breathing skin than plant matter."
2	"The trees thickened, and with them came sound — not birdsong, not wind, but something like distant chimes struck by no hand, a music that seemed to originate be…"
3	"Silver hair pooled around her like poured moonlight, and her lavender eyes found Rory's with an attention that felt physical, a hand pressed flat against her st…"
4	"Up close, the water wasn't still at all — its surface crawled with slow ripples that moved against no wind, patterns like veins beneath dark skin."
5	"The water rippled harder, and for a heartbeat Rory saw something in its depths — not a reflection, but a place: amber sky, vineyards rolling toward a horizon th…"

100.00%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags	17
uselessAdditionCount	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Isolde agreed (agree)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.243

leniency

0.486

rawRatio

0.111

effectiveRatio

0.054

72.8263%