diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b0536e9cb..c5ca1e8b6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -99,8 +99,6 @@ You can configure `commit-and-tag-version` either by:
 
 - If you are using a `.versionrc.js` your default export must be a configuration object, or a function returning a configuration object.
 
-
-
 Any of the command line parameters accepted by `commit-and-tag-version` can instead
 be provided via configuration. Please refer to the [conventional-changelog-config-spec](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog-config-spec/) for details on available configuration options.
 
@@ -108,17 +106,9 @@ be provided via configuration. Please refer to the [conventional-changelog-confi
 
 By default, `commit-and-tag-version` uses the [conventionalcommits preset](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits).
 
-This preset:
-
-- Adheres closely to the [conventionalcommits.org](https://www.conventionalcommits.org)
-  specification.
-- Is highly configurable, following the configuration specification
-  [maintained here](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog-config-spec).
-  - _We've documented these config settings as a recommendation to other tooling makers._
-
-There are a variety of dials and knobs you can turn related to CHANGELOG generation.
+This preset adheres closely to the [conventionalcommits.org](https://www.conventionalcommits.org) specification.
 
-As an example, suppose you're using GitLab, rather than GitHub, you might modify the following variables:
+Suppose you're using GitLab, rather than GitHub, you might modify the following variables:
 
 - `commitUrlFormat`: the URL format of commit SHAs detected in commit messages.
 - `compareUrlFormat`: the URL format used to compare two tags.
@@ -126,6 +116,20 @@ As an example, suppose you're using GitLab, rather than GitHub, you might modify
 
 Making these URLs match GitLab's format, rather than GitHub's.
 
+### Deeper customization
+
+You can override both [parser](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-commits-parser) and [writer](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-writer) options (they will be merged into the preset we just mentioned). As an example, to list commits in the order that they were committed:
+
+```json
+{
+  "standard-version": {
+    "writerOpts": {
+      "commitsSort": false
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
 ## CLI Usage
 
 > **NOTE:** To pass nested configurations to the CLI without defining them in the `package.json` use dot notation as the parameters `e.g. --skip.changelog`.
diff --git a/lib/lifecycles/changelog.js b/lib/lifecycles/changelog.js
index f3977f9a8..2069da9ff 100644
--- a/lib/lifecycles/changelog.js
+++ b/lib/lifecycles/changelog.js
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ function outputChangelog (args, newVersion) {
       debug: args.verbose && console.info.bind(console, 'conventional-changelog'),
       preset: presetLoader(args),
       tagPrefix: args.tagPrefix
-    }, context, { merges: null, path: args.path })
+    }, context, { merges: null, path: args.path }, args.parserOpts, args.writerOpts)
       .on('error', function (err) {
         return reject(err)
       })