Story Health Scan (free, from FictionProof)
Does your story hold up?
Twelve questions will tell you where to look first.
The Story Health Scan is a free, quick check from FictionProof. You answer twelve short questions about your own story, any genre, in about ten minutes.
You get:
- A Story Health score
- A map of where your story is strong
- A short list of where to look first
Your story stays with you. The scan runs on your own computer, in your web browser. No account, no upload, and no AI reads, touches, or stores your book.
How to open it
- Download the file.
- Find Story_Health_Scan_v5.10 in your Downloads folder and double-click it.
- It opens in your web browser. Answer the questions.
Works on laptop and desktop computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux) in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, or Brave. It will not open on an iPad or phone.
Want to go deeper?
The scan is a taste. FictionProof, the full diagnostic, goes further: a lens built for your genre, checks that catch when two of your answers can't both be true, and a worked example and a fix for every gap it finds.
Your answers come with you. At the end of the scan, click Save my answers for FictionProof. Open that file in FictionProof, and your story starts with your scan answers already beside the right questions.
Questions? Email fictionproof@jaimebuckley.com.
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