# ellipsus.com

> AI-optimized mirror of ellipsus.com containing 50 pages totalling 50,311 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://ellipsus.com. Last updated: 2026-08-07T16:58:37.820Z.

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## Homepage

- [Ellipsus | Collaborative writing software ](/content/site-root.html): Write, edit, and collaborate on any device. Ellipsus is a principled alternative to Google Docs—built for writers, by writers. Sign up for free.  (164 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [Working with Beta Readers and Editors](/content/blog/ellipsus-working-with-beta-readers-editors/index.html): We’re continuing our series on collaboration, from start to finish—in part three, we’re shining the spotlight to the dynamic duo who (somehow) make sense of our messy drafts: beta readers and editors!  (2,414 words)
- [Our Survey on Creativity, Writing, and Reading in the Age of AI](/content/blog/survey-on-writing-and-ai/index.html): What does it actually feel like to be a writer in the age of AI?

For nearly three years, we’ve been building Ellipsus alongside a growing community of writers. And in that time, AI has shifted from background noise to an unavoidable force shaping the tools, platforms, and economies of writing—affecting almost every aspect of the creative process.

So we ran a survey to hear directly from the people doing the work.

The response was overwhelming. (3,889 words)
- [Content in the Age of Discontent](/content/blog/content-in-the-age-of-discontent/index.html): The internet was supposed to be a place for connection and creativity. But it’s being flooded with AI text, algorithmic hostility, and platforms turning against the creatives who made them vibrant in the first place. (1,629 words)
- [Inside the Work with Emboss: What my Writing Process Reveals](/content/blog/inside-the-work-with-emboss/index.html): As AI-generated work spreads, writers face a big problem—being asked to prove they wrote their own work. 

But AI detectors only create another system of suspicion and judgment.

Writers will always find solutions—we're creatives, after all. When an artist wants to prove their piece is human-made, there's no better way to do that than to show the process. (2,060 words)
- [Ellipsus Digest: May 15](/content/blog/ellipsus-digest-may-15/index.html): Each week (or so), we'll highlight the relevant (and sometimes rage-inducing) news adjacent to writing and freedom of expression. (1,476 words)
- [Writing Prompts for Pride](/content/blog/writing-prompts-for-pride/index.html): A collection of writing prompts for Pride to help you deepen your queer stories and characters, explore new themes and possibilities, and reflect on what it means to be queer... in all our messy, magnificent multiplicities! (828 words)
- [Ellipsus Digest: April 23](/content/blog/ellipsus-digest-april-23/index.html): Each week (or so), we'll highlight the relevant (and sometimes rage-inducing) news adjacent to writing and freedom of expression. (703 words)
- [Collaborative Writing and Community](/content/blog/ellipsus-collaborative-writing-community/index.html): In this series, we’ve explored the many ways writers exchange ideas, find co-authors, and connect with betas and editors—but the heart and support for it all is the writing community itself.

This time, it's all about writing communities—and why they matter now more than ever. (1,814 words)
- [Where the wild stories are](/content/blog/generative-ai-fanfiction/index.html): Fandom is a vast and varied space and—just like the world at large—attitudes about genAI aren’t a monolith. But if you outsource the act of being a fan to AI, what does that leave you? (1,835 words)
- [The End of NaNo (as We Know It)](/content/blog/the-end-of-nanowrimo/index.html): So… NaNoWriMo is over (in more ways than one).

The community survived (and thrived!)… but the institution didn’t. 

Here’s the story of what happened—and what writers are building in its place. (1,687 words)
- [Ellipsus Digest: April 4](/content/blog/ellipsus-digest-april-4/index.html): Each week (or so), we'll highlight the relevant (and sometimes rage-inducing) news adjacent to writing and freedom of expression.  (942 words)
- [The world Google built: Privacy, data, and the surveillance machine](/content/blog/the-world-google-built/index.html): In the second post in our series on Google and our discontents, we trace how Google’s long history of privacy erosion produced an internet built to observe and control its users—that is, all of us. (1,302 words)
- [Introducing: Ellipsus Plus](/content/blog/introducing-ellipsus-plus/index.html): Ellipsus Plus is here! Meet our optional paid plan, built from community feedback to keep Ellipsus independent, sustainable, and improving for everyone. 

Custom themes, AI-free writing insights, a proof-of-work layer to support human writing, and a lot more! (1,186 words)
- [Inifinite narritives](/content/blog/inifinite-narratives/index.html): In our first post for Pride, we wrote about why queer stories—and the communities that sustain them—are acts of resistance (and especially needed right now). 

This time, we’re handing it over to you. (1,095 words)
- [Resistance Starts With Words](/content/blog/ellipsus-resistance-starts-with-words/index.html): Less than two weeks after the US presidential inauguration, Project 2025 is taking shape. 

What these policies will mean for creative freedom and freedom of expression remains uncertain—but the intent is clear.  (567 words)
- [How to break up with Google](/content/blog/how-to-break-up-with-google/index.html): Looking to extricate yourself from Google? We’re rounding up some of the top alternatives out there for email, search, writing, photo storage, and more.  (1,389 words)
- [Stories of resistance; communities of power](/content/blog/stories-of-resistance/index.html): The power of storytelling has always been revolutionary, and the beauty of community is that it makes us unbreakable. (853 words)
- [Writing Fantasy Worlds: Tips for Making a Fantastical World Feel Real](/content/blog/writing-fantasy-worlds-tips/index.html): How to build immersive, believable fantasy worlds that live on in readers' minds.
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- [Oversharers Anonymous: Templates for Deeper Character Development](/content/blog/character-development-templates/index.html): Creating complex, real characters means going a few layers beneath the surface... and that's where character development templates come in!  (638 words)
- [The Writing That Leads You Back](/content/blog/the-writing-that-leads-you-back/index.html): After a brutal year of upheaval and creative burnout, one writer found joy again through an unexpected side quest - and discovered that writing the “wrong” thing can lead you back to yourself. (1,396 words)
- [The Art of Long-Form: How to Write Everyday](/content/blog/how-to-write-everyday/index.html): Writing, like life, moves in phases: sometimes you're exploding with creative energy. Other times, it's a murky, cranky slogfest. 

The trick is not to fight the changes, but to stay in conversation with them.  (1,034 words)
- [The Words They’re Afraid Of](/content/blog/the-words-theyre-afraid-of/index.html): In a moment when language itself is treated as subversive, words are becoming dangerous again. 

Which is to say, powerful again. (645 words)
- [Follow the Threads: Planning Stories with Templates](/content/blog/story-planning-templates/index.html): Where does your story begin? What’s holding it together, and what is it really trying to say? 

Ideas are easy—stories are a lot harder. But story-building templates are here to help you find the connective threads that bring a plot to life. (620 words)
- [Slow Burns, Fix-Its, and AUs: Templates for Fanfic](/content/blog/templates-for-fanfic/index.html): Whatever your fic flavor, templates can help you wrangle those canon-bending storylines. (426 words)
- [Getting into the Space of Writing](/content/blog/getting-into-the-space-of-writing/index.html): The height of writing season is upon us, which means we're all facing our greatest fear: the specter of the unwritten. 

Here are few tips to help keep your creativity flowing all the way to The End—and keep the ghouls of perfectionism banished and at bay. (897 words)
- [Create AO3 works and chapters from Ellipsus ](/content/blog/create-ao3-works-and-chapters-from-ellipsus/index.html): Copy nicely formatted HTML and create or update works with just a few clicks. (Really!) (720 words)
- [Google and Surveillance Capitalism: Inside the Ouroboros](/content/blog/google-and-surveillance-capitalism/index.html): Over the past two decades, Google has built one of the most sophisticated surveillance systems in human history, designed not just to observe what you do, but to model who you are and predict what you’ll do next. 

But beneath the surface is something stranger, and even more disturbing. (649 words)
- [Ellipsus is Now in Open Beta ](/content/blog/ellipsus-open-beta/index.html): After nine months in closed beta, Ellipsus is now open to everyone. Now, any writer can join the beta, invite their collaborators, and help shape the future of our product.  (926 words)
- [Google is Bad](/content/blog/google-is-bad/index.html): (It's time to go.)

Once upon a time, Google “wasn't evil.” Now, it's too big not to be.  (546 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: November 2025](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-november-2025/index.html): October and November are big months for writers—and for the people building tools for writers! So we have ton of updates to share: improvements small, large, and extra-large. (869 words)
- [Before the First Word: 3 Preptober Templates for Planning Your Next Story](/content/blog/3-preptober-templates/index.html): This month, you’ll find three new templates in Ellipsus to help you move from nebulous idea to narrative… before you write your first line. (483 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: July 2025](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-july-2025/index.html): From themes to highlights to passwords, July’s features help make your writing space feel a little more like you. (783 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: September 2024 ](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-september-2024/index.html): This month, we gave the dashboard a major design update, made notifications more powerful, and even shipped a few improvements for your readers.  (721 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: March 2026](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-march-2026/index.html): We've released dozens of new features, improvements, and fixes since our last update. (And with 400k of you writing, we love to see it! 🎉)

Here's your TL;DR on all the things we shipped in the past few months! (536 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: February 2025](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-february-2025/index.html): Get those words flowing with new fonts, a built-in writing timer, and more.  (488 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: May 2025](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-may-2025/index.html): Celebrate Pride in style and share more descriptive links. Plus, we’ve made important improvements to spell check, syncing, and version history.  (820 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: April 2025](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-april-2025/index.html): Add images, flesh out your fic, and decode those oh-so-cryptic doc titles. Plus, some insight on syncing.  (720 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: October 2024](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-october-2024/index.html): This month, we made it easier to get your work into Ellipsus, share to destinations like AO3, work with a writing partner, and more. (697 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: Q3 2024](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-q3-2024/index.html): Folders, notifications, docusearch, and more. Collaborating on large-scale projects in Ellipsus is easier than ever.

 (676 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: September 2025](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-september-2025/index.html): New ways to collaborate, a batch of shiny new themes, fonts, and performance improvements… 

There’s a lot to check out in Ellipsus this month (and a lot to look forward to). (556 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: Q1 2024](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-q1-2024/index.html): The writing process is collaborative—we use editors and beta readers to punch up phrasing, cut out fluff, and refine our creative vision. Why should product development be any different? 

Here’s everything we’ve built—and everything you’ve helped inspire—since January.  (1,199 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: December 2024](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-december-2024/index.html): In just 12 months—and with a team of seven—we shipped more than 20 major features. To end the year, we're adding snippet sharing and an improvement to our AO3 export.  (479 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: November 2024](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-november-2024/index.html): A cornucopia of updates awaits, such as text colors, a richer commenting experience, and more!  (933 words)
- [What's new in Ellipsus ](/content/blog/ellipsus-product-update/index.html): Back in August, we started inviting writers from around the world to write in Ellipsus. Read on to discover how we've improved our writing tool with features like dark mode, mobile improvements, comments, chat, and more.  (932 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: Q2 2024](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-q2-2024/index.html): Every three months, we take a look back at the features and improvements we added to Ellipsus. 

This quarter, we shipped some of our top feature requests, so you can tally up your words, take care of typos, traverse longer documents, and more.  (899 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: March 2025](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-march-2025/index.html): Kickstart your next project with Ellipsus-crafted templates, customize your docs with 10 new fonts, and more!  (351 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: June 2026](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-june-2026/index.html): 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. (1,126 words)
- [New in Ellipsus: April 2026](/content/blog/new-in-ellipsus-april-2026/index.html): Spring is all about new beginnings. Here at Ellipsus, we’re coming out of the long, dark winter with fresh features and updates, plus a big survey on creativity in the age of AI, and how we fight back against the slopocalypse.

(Someone’s gotta do it.) (522 words)
- [Ellipsus Blog | What's new](/content/blog/whats-new/index.html) (803 words)

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