diff --git a/amanuensis/lexicon/__init__.py b/amanuensis/lexicon/__init__.py
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diff --git a/amanuensis/lexicon/publish.py b/amanuensis/lexicon/publish.py
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+"""
+The article writing workflow proceeds through the following states:
+
+* Active: When player creates a draft, it is initialized with this state.
+  Players can view and edit their active drafts. Admins can view all active
+  drafts. Active drafts occupy an index slot in the lexicon, but the title is
+  elided.
+
+  Players can mark their active drafts as ready for publication, which
+  transitions the draft to the Ready state. If publish.notify.editor_on_ready
+  is true, the editor will be notified.
+
+* Ready: Players can view but not edit their ready drafts. Editors and admins
+  can view all ready drafts. The editor's session page lists all ready drafts
+  for that lexicon. Ready drafts occupy an index slot with an elided title.
+
+  A player can unready a ready draft, which transitions it to the Active state.
+
+  The editor can approve a ready draft, which transitions it to the Locked
+  state, or reject it, which transitions it to the Active state and includes a
+  message from the editor to the player who owns it. If either
+  publish.notify.player_on_reject or publish.notify.player_on_accept is true,
+  the player will be notified in that case.
+
+* Locked: Players can view but not edit their locked drafts. Editors and admins
+  admins can view all locked drafts. The editor's session page lists all
+  locked drafts for that lexicon. Locked drafts occupy an index slot with an
+  elided title.
+
+Turn publishing can be attempted by executing the lexicon-publish-turn command.
+Automatic publishing is controlled by two settings: asap and deadlines.
+
+* asap: If publish.asap is true, when the editor approves a draft, Amanuensis
+  will check if each character has a locked draft. If so, publishing will be
+  attempted immediately.
+
+* deadlines: publish.deadlines should be a crontab-format time specification.
+  This will be prepended to the publish command and inserted into the user
+  crontab. The command uses --as-deadline to differentiate scheduled publish
+  attempts from manual ones. If publish.deadlines is empty, no crontab entry
+  will be used.
+
+Whenever publishing is attempted, either internally via asap or externally via
+invocation by command line or cron job, Amanuensis checks if every character in
+the lexicon has a locked draft. If so, the turn is published. If not, publish
+behavior follows two settings: quorum and block_on_ready.
+
+* quorum: If publish.quorum is defined, then Amanuensis will check if there are
+  at least $quorum number of locked articles. If there are, then turn
+  publishing will proceed with just those articles. If there are not, but there
+  are enough ready articles to make quorum and --as-deadline was specified, then
+  the editor will be notified that they are blocking the turn. If there are not
+  enough ready articles to make quorum and --as-deadline was specified, then
+  players with characters without ready articles will be notified that they are
+  blocking the turn.
+
+* block_on_ready: If publish.block_on_ready is true, then turn publishing will
+  fail if any character missing a locked article has a ready article. The
+  editor will be notified that they are blocking the turn.
+
+* --force can be specified to lexicon-publish-turn to skip both quorum and
+  block_on_ready checks.
+"""
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diff --git a/amanuensis/resources/lexicon.json b/amanuensis/resources/lexicon.json
index 74206c7..60e0ab3 100644
--- a/amanuensis/resources/lexicon.json
+++ b/amanuensis/resources/lexicon.json
@@ -12,10 +12,15 @@
 		"max_players": 4
 	},
 	"publish": {
-		"policy": null,
-		"timespecs": null,
+		"notify": {
+			"editor_on_ready": true,
+			"player_on_reject": true,
+			"player_on_accept": false
+		},
+		"deadlines": null,
+		"asap": false,
 		"quorum": null,
-		"lock_on_ready": false
+		"block_on_ready": true
 	},
 	"article": {
 		"index": {