This episode of Nothing About This Is Safe is a little different. It's an ad, and Jaime says so in the first ten seconds. He built FictionProof, a story diagnostic that runs on your own computer, never goes online, and never reads your manuscript, and he spends the episode telling you what it does, what it absolutely does not do, and who should skip it.

Inside this episode:

• The three kinds of story holes: you never decided, you decided twice, and you decided it but it never made it onto the page

• Why you can't find these by rereading your own draft, and the "director's commentary" playing in your head

• Why Jaime thinks FictionProof is not a replacement for editors or beta readers

• What the tool cannot do: tell you whether your book is good, whether your joke is funny, or whether your story has a soul

• The free Story Health Scan: twelve questions, about ten minutes, no purchase needed

Try it free: Story Health Scan

Full version: fictionproof.com

More from Jaime: jaimebuckley.com

Nothing About This Is Safe is the monthly writing-truth podcast hosted by Jaime Buckley, featuring candid conversations with working authors. We go after the real questions fiction writers actually search for ... craft, identity, mindset, publishing reality, money, and creative survival ... without sugarcoating and without performance. If a writer is looking for an honest answer, this is the conversation they were looking for.

This Episode Answers

• Is AI a tool or a threat for fiction writers?

• How do I use AI without letting it write my story for me?

• Why does every AI conversation turn into an argument, and how do I stay out of the fight?

• Can AI help a writer or artist whose body is slowing down?

• What do I do if I don’t want to use AI at all?

Nothing About This Is Safe is the show where we strip the varnish off the writing world. This month Jaime sits down with Deleyna Marr to talk about the two platforms he actually runs his business on, and why he no longer pays for the pile of tools he used to.

Inside this episode:

Why Jaime calls Substack his "flagship" and World Anvil his "candy store," and what that split actually does for a reader

How World Anvil went from a gaming-adjacent curiosity to the place Jaime's original series still lives, read hundreds of thousands of times

Why "the AI librarian" is quietly replacing the search bar, and what that means for how you should be building your world online

Deleyna's answer for the writer standing in the doorway of World Anvil, overwhelmed before they've written a word

Guest: Deleyna Marr

More from Jaime: jaimebuckley.com

Music: "Feel Good" by raspberrymusic