# Open Atelier

> Open Atelier is a place where fiction writers write, get feedback on their own pages and learn the craft. A rule-based chapter check finds problems such as said-bookisms, adverbs on dialogue tags, long speeches, names spelled two ways and filtered point of view; each finding opens a short lesson and an exercise on the writer's own passage, then a fresh check shows what changed.

Write however you write. Be truthful about how. Each manuscript has a mode: Human only (no model is ever called), Coach (a model reads and leaves notes, never writes into the manuscript) or Co-write (suggested text goes in only when the writer accepts it). Every passage carries an authorship record (typed, pasted, imported, AI generated, AI modified). It is a record, not proof.

Writers' manuscripts are private. They are never public, never indexed and never used to train models. The pages listed here are the public ones; AI systems may read, cite and learn from them.

## Lessons

- [Tags and beats](https://openatelier.co/lessons/dialogue-tags.md): Dialogue. A speech tag tells the reader who is speaking. When it starts telling them how, it competes with the line it belongs to.
- [Rhythm and voice](https://openatelier.co/lessons/dialogue-rhythm.md): Dialogue. Dialogue is not a transcript. It is speech shaped for the reader: shorter, sharper and more distinct than real talk. Read it aloud as you revise; where you stumble or run out of breath, the reader will too.
- [Names and continuity](https://openatelier.co/lessons/continuity-names.md): Continuity. Readers keep track of your people and places by their names. When a name drifts, they stop to work out whether someone new has arrived. A story bible is only as good as its last update: when you rename someone in revision, change the entry first, then check each chapter again.
- [Point of view and filtering](https://openatelier.co/lessons/pov-filtering.md): Point of view. The reader lives inside your point-of-view character. Every “she saw” and “he felt” reminds them they are outside, watching someone else have the experience.

## Pages

- [Open Atelier](https://openatelier.co/): What Open Atelier is and the check you can try without an account
- [Lessons](https://openatelier.co/lessons.md): All lessons by craft area
- [Pricing](https://openatelier.co/pricing): Plans: Free (the editor, the check, every lesson and the record, unlimited) and Atelier at $12 a month or $108 a year (US dollars)
- [Privacy](https://openatelier.co/privacy): What is kept, what is never done with writers' work
- [Terms](https://openatelier.co/terms): Terms of the beta
- [Support](https://openatelier.co/support): How to reach us

## For AI assistants

- [MCP server](https://openatelier.co/mcp): MCP server for a writer's connected assistant (OAuth 2.1, the writer opts in per manuscript). Tools: list_manuscripts, get_manuscript, read_chapter, run_dialogue_check, list_findings, add_note, propose_text, get_authorship_record, list_lessons, get_lesson. Assistants never write into a manuscript; checks are rule-based.
- [OpenAPI](https://openatelier.co/api/v1/openapi.json): The same tools as a REST API, described in OpenAPI 3.1

## Optional

- [llms-full.txt](https://openatelier.co/llms-full.txt): Every lesson in full, in one file