# New in Ellipsus: June 2026 June. Is there a sweeter (_and hotter_ đŸ”„) 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. Written by **Rex Mizrach** Publish date: **02/07/2026** ## The big news 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. Plus gives you more ways to make Ellipsus your own by customizing your writing space, with tools to explore the patterns and choices shaping your craft, share your words in more personal and playful ways, and show the human process that brought your work to life. Take a tour of everything in the plan (_so far!_) in our **Plus Features Tour** video! All purchases and payment plans end in forever ownership of the Plus license (_no eternal subscriptions!_). You can start a free trial anytime—no payment info required. ## Four new Writing Insights for Plus And hot on the heels of the grand debut of Plus, we added four new metrics to **Writing Insights**. ##### Repeated phrases _Find the multi-word phrases that recur throughout your draft (including the ones that_ somehow _appeared thirteen times without your beta noticing). You can sort through your top-ten most-used phrases (for phrases containing up to six words)._ ##### Dialogue balance _See your draft’s percentage of dialogue vs. narration, and where each appears throughout your doc._ ##### Points of view _Explore how many sentences are written from each POV—first person, second, and third—and make_ extra _-sure you didn’t accidentally switch halfway through (or just observe how perspective operates across a more experimental work)._ ##### Punctuation habits _See how frequently you use expressive punctuation marks per 1,000 words?!!!?!! (Yes!)_ Writing Insights can make editing move a _lot_ faster by helping you catch things that are easy to miss on the page (like POV shifts, phrases you’ve leaned on a bit too often, and lots of other patterns that aren't _quite_ doing what you intended). Now, there are 14 Insights in total! But they’re not only there to point out what you might want to improve! Together, your Insights create a kind of fingerprint of your writing style—showing you the rhythms and choices that make your voice _yours_. (We think that's pretty neat.) Writing Insights runs locally in your browser—without AI, of course—and your text never leaves the editor for analysis. ## Stay on top of your dashboard with list view for everyone 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 folders with our new list view for dashboard. Super useful for writers whose dashboards have become a teeming mass of folders, notes, abandoned openings, alternate endings, and docs called things like _Chapter-8-FINAL-final-REAL._ Try it out with our handy toggle located in the sorting menu at the top right of your dashboard. And yes: **list view is free for all!** ## We've got main character syndrome We also added a new **writing template** to the Ellipsus template library— **The Hero’s Journey.** You can access this and 19 other Ellipsus templates from your dash (click **\+ New** and **From template**). 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** ### **_Key trial_** _Since this stage represents the majority of the second act, add as many trials as you need to develop your story and build towards the next stage._ - **_Inciting incident:_** - **_New allies:_** - **_New enemies:_** - **_Resolution:_** **_The Inmost Cave_** _The stakes only keep rising, and pressure on the Hero builds. Stakes may become clearer, but also more layered and nuanced. There may be fallout from Key Trials from the previous stage that the Hero must grapple with (this can be an external crisis or the Hero's internal conflict, reflected in their worst traits taking control)._ - **_Inner challenges:_** - **_External challenges:_** - **_Added stakes:_** **_The Ordeal/Temptation_** _The central crisis or confrontation of the story. The Hero faces death (or their greatest fears). They may be presented with a terrible choice: achieve all they want, but at the highest cost._ - **_Crisis Event:_** - **_Temptations:_** - **_Tragic choice:_** ## Pride, in all its multiplicities Ahhh, Pride month. The parties (_at our desks_ đŸ« ), the long days (_working to get Plus out on the dot_), the yearning _(
 for everyone to upgrade to Plus)_
 It’s all just so gay! (_Friendly reminder to support your fave “Gay GoogleDocs” and other queer-owned businesses_!) And just as every year, we wanted to pause and remember who we are, why we’re here, and the histories and communities that make Pride possible. So we shared a collection of **24 writing prompts for Pride** to help you break away from standard narratives, deepen your queer stories and characters, explore new themes and possibilities, and reflect on what it means to be queer in all our glorious multiplicities. _Queer elders, found families, first transformations, old rebellions, the versions of ourselves we had to imagine before we knew they could exist
_ [**You can find them all in our blog post.**](/content/blog/writing-prompts-for-pride/index.html) Happy Pride, Ellipsus fam. 🌈 We also invited writers from the Ellipsus community to tell us why Pride is important to them. [**Watch the videos**](https://www.tiktok.com/@ellipsus_writes) to hear what they had to say! ## Bits n' bobs - Certain rowdy outlines should no longer fall out of sync with document structure. - It's now possible to cancel your Ellipsus Plus trial. (Never fear, you still won'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](https://bsky.app/profile/ellipsus.com/post/3mnkjyc46ak2x) on BlueSky and [tweeting at the Pope](https://x.com/ellipsus_writes/status/2069789125461340232) ( _⁉⁉⁉ What a timeline..._) - YouTube essayist Roughest Drafts did a great [deep dive video essay](https://youtu.be/o97JoK8RQIc) about our Emboss feature, and the larger [issues](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/01/judges-claims-ai-use-commonwealth-short-story-prize-jamir-nazir) surrounding human work vs. AI authorship accusations, with the question: how can we defend creative labor (and make the human process visible)? - Shoutout to the [Queer Liberation Library](https://givebutter.com/qqlls-pride-campaign-2026-rg3yn3) for exceeding their Pride fundraising goal!! Thank you _so much_ for making our biggest month yet such a phenomenal one. Every person who writes with Ellipsus, tells a friend, joins the community, shares a post, sends us feedback, or chooses to support us through Plus helps us keep building and thriving.đŸ’†â€â™‚ïž Onward and upward for July! Happy writing and happy Pride, **The Ellipsus Team xo**