Run: 2026-09-02-01M1H5H4QFJ4B7NWXDMACVP7KC

Run Details

Model:
Z.AI GLM 5.3 Flash (Reasoning, Low)
Test:
Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:
Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:
44.6s
Cost:
$0.000387
Provider:
Z.AI

Evaluation summary

Score Evaluator
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100.00% Adverbs in dialogue tags (details)
95.35% AI-ism adverb frequency (details)
100.00% AI-ism character names (details)
100.00% AI-ism location names (details)
76.74% 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)
66.67% Name drop frequency (details)
100.00% Narrator intent-glossing (details)
15.84% "Not X but Y" pattern overuse (details)
100.00% Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding) (details)
100.00% Paragraph length variance (details)
93.57% 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)
86.42% Sentence opener variety (details)
100.00% Adverb-first sentence starts (details)
99.25% Pronoun-first sentence starts (details)
63.77% Subject-first sentence starts (details)
0.00% Subordinate conjunction sentence starts (details)
15.31% Technical jargon density (details)
100.00% Useless dialogue additions (details)
85.48% Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy) (details)
83.2798% 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

AI
The standing stones rose out of the bracken like broken teeth, older than anything Rory had ever touched. She'd walked Richmond Park a hundred times in her London life, jogged past deer and dog-walkers and tourists feeding ducks, and never once noticed the gap between the two tallest oaks where the air bent sideways. "It's like heat haze," she said, reaching toward the shimmer. "In December." "Careful with that." Nyx drifted ahead of her, their form thinner than smoke tonight, edges bleeding into the dusk. "Time misbehaves past that line. An hour within could cost you a week without. Or cost you nothing at all. The Grove has never been polite about arithmetic." "Comforting." "You asked for the Seer. The Seer lives here. Complain to her." Rory pulled her coat tighter and stepped between the stones. The world turned inside out. Sound came first — birdsong in three keys she had no name for, layered over water running uphill somewhere to her left. Then light: not the grey fade of an English evening but a wash of green-gold, as though the sun had been filtered through bottle glass and poured across the land. Wildflowers crowded the path in December, fat-headed and absurd, purple and white and a blue so deep it hurt to look at. Their scent hit her in the chest, honey and rain and something mineral, like struck flint. "Okay," she breathed. "Okay, that's — okay." "Articulate as ever." Nyx solidified beside her, boots sinking into moss that swallowed the impression the moment they lifted their foot. "Watch the ground. Nothing here leaves tracks. Try to remember you're the exception." She glanced back. Her own footprints trailed behind her, dark crescents in the moss — the only marks in the whole clearing. The grass around the standing stones, visible now through the archway, rippled without wind. Beyond it, the park lay flat and grey and ordinary, as if viewed through the wrong end of a telescope. A dog-walker strolled past, head down, phone out. He didn't glance at the impossible meadow inches from his elbow. "He can't see us?" "The Veil bends around this place. He sees brambles and a fallen oak. Best not to wave." Rory turned forward and stopped. The clearing stretched far deeper than the map of the park allowed. Richmond Park ended half a mile that way — she knew the road, the Pen Ponds, the rugby pitches. Here, the Grove rolled on into tree-shadow that had no business existing within the M25, oaks with trunks wide as buses, their roots arched into doorways and windows. Silver threads of water crossed the grass in slow braids. Somewhere distant, wind chimes played a tune with no wind chime in it. Her pendant warmed against her sternum. She pressed a hand flat over it without thinking. The Heartstone had never done that before — not near the river rifts, not near anything. She pulled it out on its silver chain and the crimson gem glowed faintly, pulsing in slow rhythm. Almost like a heartbeat. Almost like it was keeping time with something ahead of them. "Nyx." "I see it." Their violet eyes had narrowed to slits. "The stone should sleep here. Fae ground doesn't pull at Hel-touched things." They glanced at the pulse, then deeper into the Grove. "It's answering something. Something down there is asking." "Wonderful. I love it when the creepy jewellery gets chatty." "Stay behind me, and stay loud if anything speaks to you. Fae take silence for consent." They moved along the path together. The flowers parted for Rory's boots and closed again behind her, unstamped. Dew clung to her ankles, cold through her jeans. As they walked, she felt the air thicken — pressure without weight, like the moment before a storm — and the hairs on her arms rose in slow sequence, one after another, as if her body were being read line by line. Somewhere to her right, something laughed. Not cruel. Delighted. A child's laugh, except it came from inside the hollow of an oak that had no hollow a moment ago. "Don't look," Nyx murmured. She looked. In the dark seam of the trunk, two eyes the colour of foxgloves blinked at her, and a small hand — too many fingers, too many knuckles — pressed a sprig of white flowers through the gap and withdrew. "They like you." "Is that good?" "Neither good nor bad. Just expensive. Fae never like you for free." The chimes grew louder. The path crested a small rise Rory would have sworn hadn't been there, and the heart of the Grove opened below them: a ring of nine oaks around a pool so still it reflected a sky that wasn't there — two moons, one silver, one the green of bottle glass, hanging in the water's mirror while the real sky above showed only early stars. Isolde stood at the pool's edge. She had no footprints either. Her silver hair fell to her waist and moved in a current that touched nothing else, and her lavender eyes found Rory across the distance as if they'd been waiting since before Rory was born. "You're late," Isolde said, and her voice carried across the water without rising. "Or early. The Grove argues about it still." "We came as fast as—" "You came exactly when the pendant told you to. It sings, doesn't it? It's been singing since you crossed the stones." She tilted her head. "It has not sung in three hundred years, child. Not since the last time someone brought a piece of Dymas to this water and asked the pool to tell them what they were carrying." Rory's fingers closed around the Heartstone. Warm. Pulsing. In the still water, the green moon flickered. "So it's not mine." Isolde smiled, and it was the smile of someone watching a door open that had been locked for a very long time. "Nothing given to you by strangers is ever only yours. Come to the water. Ask it what the gift is for — while it still remembers how to be asked." Nyx's shadowed hand closed on Rory's shoulder, cool as slate. "She can't lie," they said quietly. "But hear how she doesn't answer the question you actually ask." The pool waited. The chimes stopped. Somewhere behind the ring of oaks, the foxglove-eyed thing giggled one last time and fell silent, and Rory walked down toward the water with the stone beating against her palm like a second, borrowed heart.
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Evaluation details

Result Evaluator Details Meta Data
100.00% Adverbs in dialogue tags
Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs
totalTags10
adverbTagCount1
adverbTags
0"they said quietly [quietly]"
dialogueSentences31
tagDensity0.323
leniency0.645
rawRatio0.1
effectiveRatio0.065
95.35% AI-ism adverb frequency
Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked)
wordCount1075
totalAiIsmAdverbs1
found
0
adverb"very"
count1
highlights
0"very"
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)
76.74% AI-ism word frequency
Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked)
wordCount1075
totalAiIsms5
found
0
word"comforting"
count1
1
word"pulse"
count1
2
word"silence"
count1
3
word"weight"
count1
4
word"flickered"
count1
highlights
0"comforting"
1"pulse"
2"silence"
3"weight"
4"flickered"
100.00% Cliché density
Target: ≤1 cliche(s) per 800-word window
totalCliches0
maxInWindow0
found(empty)
highlights(empty)
100.00% Emotion telling (show vs. tell)
Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling
emotionTells0
narrationSentences60
matches(empty)
100.00% Filter word density
Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words
filterCount0
hedgeCount0
narrationSentences60
filterMatches(empty)
hedgeMatches(empty)
100.00% Gibberish response detection
Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words)
analyzedSentences81
gibberishSentences0
adjustedGibberishSentences0
longSentenceCount0
runOnParagraphCount0
giantParagraphCount0
wordSaladCount0
repetitionLoopCount0
controlTokenCount0
repeatedSegmentCount0
maxSentenceWordsSeen63
ratio0
matches(empty)
100.00% Markdown formatting overuse
Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting
markdownSpans0
markdownWords0
totalWords1086
ratio0
matches(empty)
100.00% Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)
Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks
totalAttributions14
unquotedAttributions0
matches(empty)
66.67% Name drop frequency
Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words
totalMentions31
wordCount806
uniqueNames12
maxNameDensity1.24
worstName"Rory"
maxWindowNameDensity3
worstWindowName"Rory"
discoveredNames
Rory10
Richmond2
Park2
London1
Nyx4
English1
December1
Pen1
Ponds1
Grove3
Heartstone2
Isolde3
persons
0"Rory"
1"Nyx"
2"Heartstone"
3"Isolde"
places
0"Richmond"
1"Park"
2"London"
3"December"
4"Grove"
globalScore0.88
windowScore0.667
100.00% Narrator intent-glossing
Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns
analyzedSentences43
glossingSentenceCount0
matches(empty)
15.84% "Not X but Y" pattern overuse
Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words
totalMatches2
per1kWords1.842
wordCount1086
matches
0"not the grey fade of an English evening but a wash of green-gold, as though the sun had been filtered th"
1"Neither good nor"
100.00% Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)
Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses
thatCount0
totalSentences81
matches(empty)
100.00% Paragraph length variance
Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts
totalParagraphs39
mean27.85
std25.6
cv0.919
sampleLengths
054
112
247
31
412
510
65
790
87
934
1075
114
1217
1387
1464
151
1640
1710
1816
1969
2029
214
2241
233
243
2512
2668
276
2840
2921
305
3159
3216
334
3422
3530
3610
3717
3841
93.57% Passive voice overuse
Target: ≤2% passive sentences
passiveCount2
totalSentences60
matches
0"been filtered"
1"been locked"
100.00% Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse
Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs
pastProgressiveCount1
totalVerbs121
matches
0"was keeping"
0.00% Em-dash & semicolon overuse
Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons
emDashCount9
semicolonCount0
flaggedSentences7
totalSentences81
ratio0.086
matches
0"Sound came first — birdsong in three keys she had no name for, layered over water running uphill somewhere to her left."
1"Her own footprints trailed behind her, dark crescents in the moss — the only marks in the whole clearing."
2"Richmond Park ended half a mile that way — she knew the road, the Pen Ponds, the rugby pitches."
3"The Heartstone had never done that before — not near the river rifts, not near anything."
4"As they walked, she felt the air thicken — pressure without weight, like the moment before a storm — and the hairs on her arms rose in slow sequence, one after another, as if her body were being read line by line."
5"In the dark seam of the trunk, two eyes the colour of foxgloves blinked at her, and a small hand — too many fingers, too many knuckles — pressed a sprig of white flowers through the gap and withdrew."
6"The path crested a small rise Rory would have sworn hadn't been there, and the heart of the Grove opened below them: a ring of nine oaks around a pool so still it reflected a sky that wasn't there — two moons, one silver, one the green of bottle glass, hanging in the water's mirror while the real sky above showed only early stars."
100.00% Purple prose (modifier overload)
Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking
wordCount803
adjectiveStacks0
stackExamples(empty)
adverbCount24
adverbRatio0.029887920298879204
lyAdverbCount5
lyAdverbRatio0.0062266500622665
100.00% Repeated phrase echo
Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2)
totalSentences81
echoCount0
echoWords(empty)
100.00% Sentence length variance
Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts
totalSentences81
mean13.41
std11.56
cv0.862
sampleLengths
018
136
210
32
419
528
61
712
810
95
1022
1130
1222
1316
143
154
1621
1713
183
1919
2014
2120
228
2311
244
2517
265
2712
2819
2928
3010
3113
326
339
3416
3518
364
3711
381
3910
4022
418
4210
4316
446
4512
469
4742
486
492
86.42% Sentence opener variety
Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers
consecutiveRepeats5
diversityRatio0.5555555555555556
totalSentences81
uniqueOpeners45
100.00% Adverb-first sentence starts
Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb
adverbCount6
totalSentences53
matches
0"Then light: not the grey"
1"Somewhere distant, wind chimes played"
2"Almost like a heartbeat."
3"Almost like it was keeping"
4"Somewhere to her right, something"
5"Somewhere behind the ring of"
ratio0.113
99.25% Pronoun-first sentence starts
Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun
pronounCount16
totalSentences53
matches
0"She'd walked Richmond Park a"
1"she said, reaching toward the"
2"Their scent hit her in"
3"She glanced back."
4"Her own footprints trailed behind"
5"He didn't glance at the"
6"Her pendant warmed against her"
7"She pressed a hand flat"
8"She pulled it out on"
9"Their violet eyes had narrowed"
10"They glanced at the pulse,"
11"They moved along the path"
12"She had no footprints either."
13"Her silver hair fell to"
14"She tilted her head"
15"they said quietly"
ratio0.302
63.77% Subject-first sentence starts
Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject
subjectCount42
totalSentences53
matches
0"The standing stones rose out"
1"She'd walked Richmond Park a"
2"she said, reaching toward the"
3"Nyx drifted ahead of her,"
4"Rory pulled her coat tighter"
5"The world turned inside out."
6"Sound came first — birdsong"
7"Wildflowers crowded the path in"
8"Their scent hit her in"
9"Nyx solidified beside her, boots"
10"She glanced back."
11"Her own footprints trailed behind"
12"The grass around the standing"
13"A dog-walker strolled past, head"
14"He didn't glance at the"
15"Rory turned forward and stopped."
16"The clearing stretched far deeper"
17"Richmond Park ended half a"
18"Here, the Grove rolled on"
19"Her pendant warmed against her"
ratio0.792
0.00% Subordinate conjunction sentence starts
Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction
subConjCount0
totalSentences53
matches(empty)
ratio0
15.31% Technical jargon density
Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns
analyzedSentences28
technicalSentenceCount5
matches
0"Then light: not the grey fade of an English evening but a wash of green-gold, as though the sun had been filtered through bottle glass and poured across the lan…"
1"Beyond it, the park lay flat and grey and ordinary, as if viewed through the wrong end of a telescope."
2"Here, the Grove rolled on into tree-shadow that had no business existing within the M25, oaks with trunks wide as buses, their roots arched into doorways and wi…"
3"As they walked, she felt the air thicken — pressure without weight, like the moment before a storm — and the hairs on her arms rose in slow sequence, one after …"
4"The path crested a small rise Rory would have sworn hadn't been there, and the heart of the Grove opened below them: a ring of nine oaks around a pool so still …"
100.00% Useless dialogue additions
Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments
totalTags10
uselessAdditionCount0
matches(empty)
85.48% Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)
Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags
totalTags5
fancyCount2
fancyTags
0"she breathed (breathe)"
1"Nyx murmured (murmur)"
dialogueSentences31
tagDensity0.161
leniency0.323
rawRatio0.4
effectiveRatio0.129
83.2798%