What's new in June

June. Is there a sweeter (and hotter 🔥) month? It has certainly been a busy one here at Ellipsus. In addition to the launch of Plus, we’ve been hard at work on making improvements to the tool (list view, anyone?), celebrating Pride with writers across our community, and tweeted at the Pope. What a time!

Here’s everything that happened at Ellipsus this month.

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NEW FEATURE

List view for your dashboard

This one's for those of us with a thousand weirdly-titled WIPs on the dash... you know who you are...). Get on top of your docs and WIPs with our new list view for dashboard.

Try it out with our handy toggle located in the sorting menu (top-right in dashboard).

See your dashboard

Ellipsus Plus

If you haven’t heard, this June we debuted Ellipsus Plus: a colorful, creative, and—of course!—human way to help us keep building Ellipsus independently and sustainably, while supporting the free plan available to everyone.

You can start a free trial anytime—no payment info required!

Try free for 7 days

NEW IN PLUS

Four new Writing Insights

Hot on the heels of Plus’ debut, we added four new metrics to Writing Insights:

Repeated phrases
Dialogue balance
Points of view
Punctuation habits

Writing Insights can make editing move a lot faster by helping you catch things that are easy to miss on the page. They also create a kind of fingerprint of your writing style—showing you the rhythms and choices that make your voice yours.

All about Writing Insights

From the blog

Writing prompts for Pride

We've put together 24 writing prompts to inspire stories that break the dominant narrative.

Write about queer elders, found families, first transformations, old rebellions, the versions of ourselves we had to imagine before we knew they could exist…

See the full list on our blog >

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NEW TEMPLATE

The Hero's Journey

You'll know this story structure: the hero is pushed out of their ordinary world on an adventure, facing obstacles, winning, and returning transformed.

It's a beloved tale that has been told thousands of times (Homer's Odyssey, Star Wars, Jane Eyre, and so many more)—so join the club and tell your version!

Preview the Hero's Journey

Across the Ellipsusverse

What does Pride mean to you?

We invited some writers from the Ellipsus community to our TikTok channel to share why Pride is important to them.

Check out their responses >

Other news & improvements

Certain rowdy outlines should no longer fall out of sync with document structure.

It's now possible to cancel your Ellipsus Plus trial. (You still don't get auto-charged when it ends).

We've been busy on socials this month, weighing in on the crisis of AI-based AI verifiers on BlueSky and tweeting at the Pope (⁉⁉⁉ What a timeline...)

YouTube essayist Roughest Drafts did a deep dive video essay about our Emboss feature, and the larger issues surrounding human vs. AI authorship, with the question: how can we defend creative labor (and make the human process visible)?

Shoutout to the Queer Liberation Library for exceeding their Pride fundraising goal!

Check out all the latest updates

See what's new

Thank you so much for making our biggest month yet such a phenomenal one.

Every single person who writes with Ellipsus, tells a friend, or shares a post helps us keep building and thriving. Onward and upward for July!

Happy writing, and happy Pride! 🌈
The Ellipsus team

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