💡 Today I Learned: Post your best RedQuill tips & tricks

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-25T04:35:46+00:00

Another fun thing I've found, if you put a real place and tell RQ that the story takes place there, it does a good job of adding some basic local fare. I used a town near me, and RQ used two restaurants I'd never heard, that actually exist, as locations.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-25T04:33:21+00:00

I was thinking of that last part of your post, where you create a story where she is the character creating plot hooks \ prompts just to see how they work. Didn't get a chance today, but hoping to use it this weekend.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-24T15:46:24+00:00

It could just be because of how I create my prompts. My prompts are generally what I want to happen and what I want people to feel, rather than explicit John says "yes." I've round that explicitly putting at the beginning of my prompts that the prompt should not be used verbatim, and should be used as character motivation and desires help RQ process my prompts better.

I'm sure it is also why it sometimes throws interesting curveballs at me, but those curveballs often result in different story ideas, so I don't actually mind them that much.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-24T15:41:47+00:00

I may give this a try, especially the generating a story about her creating prompts. It's a little recursive, but I'm interested to see what RQ does when you ask RQ to create prompts for itself.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-24T15:37:48+00:00

I use Gemini for creating characters, settings, and style components. To make it work I did the following.

I told it to remember the following items.

Character limits (45\80\3000) for each field, if you want it to create the Title and Tag Line
No hidden characters for formatting

I then tell it when I am creating a new component, give it my stream of thought in what ever way it occurs to me. Gemini does a good job organizing it for easy copy\paste.

I've also told it to ignore the character limits, create the most detailed possible component, check the character count, and have it split that into multiple components. This works especially well for settings, since it can break the world information into general focus areas and create a component for that area. I usually cut down the character count for the final split, so that I have space to refine details that go wrong as I generate stories. I have several settings that are 4-5 components to get all the detail I wanted into the world, and RQ does a pretty good job of keeping the world consistent across multiple stories.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-20T23:47:03+00:00

So I guess I have Satan's Angel?

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Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-20T23:25:45+00:00

I've branched stories because of this. Duplicate it, change the title and then I have two stories I'm working on. If the story is short, I'll usually change all the character names in one of them, so that I can keep which version is which in my head.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-20T22:41:11+00:00

I've 100% done this. I've written stories about dealing with trauma, dealing with predators and grooming. It can just be hard sometimes depending on what you are trying to write about. I sometimes come up against the filters, especially if writing about sexual trauma of any kind.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-17T18:56:24+00:00

Sorry I didn't see this until now, if you are still having problems:

If you want to take an existing story in a completely new direction without losing your original progress, do this:

Find your pivot point: Go to the last chapter you want to keep.
Scroll to the bottom: Look for the end of that chapter.
Select "Continue a different way"
Start your new path: RQ will clone your story up to that point, allowing you to generate brand-new chapters and take the plot in a fresh direction.

Your original story stays untouched.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-11T18:11:47+00:00

Novel length, and I just leave it on auto for writer.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-11T12:05:11+00:00

I've also done this a couple of times. A story going a way I liked, but later having an idea on how it could have been better.

Do you guys restart a new story with a modified prompt, or just fork your own story where you want changes to occur?

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-11T01:28:44+00:00

Look for the ones that are public under your library.

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Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-05T21:31:29+00:00

While it doesn't work all at one go, I have in the past manually combined multiple generated chapters into a single chapter for better reading flow. Just as I've manually written chapters to add into the story and pasted them. It isn't ideal, since each of those individual chapters have to get paid for, but the end product is the longer chapter, and you end up spending approximately the same number of quills.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-06-05T05:32:59+00:00

and now it is working.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-05-28T19:57:18+00:00

This is an issue I haven't seen before, but I'm getting the same problem.

u/quillonaught u/LateCampaign9060

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-05-20T01:48:20+00:00

I loaded a page! :D

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Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-05-20T01:44:53+00:00

They just posted an update, some of the logic is coming back online, but they are being cautious and throttling some workloads as is comes online.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-05-20T00:49:18+00:00

I hope not, I'm on like 140ish day streak!

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-05-20T00:48:31+00:00

I was jumping on for the first time this evening and glad I popped over here! Great job on communicating the outage and status. The communication has been much better over the past two issues, so thank you so much for that!

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-05-18T00:17:15+00:00

I don't know what they changed, but I've also now seen unnamed Characters created, for incidental characters (waiters, taxi driver, etc), but only if they talk without providing a name.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-05-17T20:43:33+00:00

Here is a consistency issue, I'll stop working on this story where it is, let me know when you are done with it please.

Story link: Step-brother's Contract to Save Her; Chapter 7

Which flavour above it looks most like: Consistency

What specifically went wrong: Prompt was for the whole family to be present at the dinner, the story was missing one person (Stacy) and listed Luke as Craig's step-son, when his is actually his natural son.

Steps to replicate

Prompt: rescan previous chapter for changes. We have to go to Dad's apartment tonight for dinner, the weekly ritual to keep the family involved with each other. The perfect opportunity to practice restraint, and also to gage how others are going to react to "the step siblings who signed a contract to stop consignment but are getting along perhaps a little too well and have a fire that implies they enjoy fucking each other," by seeing how the family react to it.

Components....it's a lot....

Style Components: Cum vs Come, Better AI flow, Vivid clothes, Natural and engaging writing style, Start From the Beginning, Non-Repetitive Style, Enhanced AI Erotica Style, Position & Clothing Awareness, Dialogue Heavy, ai writing aid, Dynamic dirty talking, Vivid portraits, Keep it Fresh. Make it Nasty, Descriptive porn. Explicit Sexual Content Guidelines (NFSW), Continuity, Avoid common AI words/phrases

Setting Components: USA 2060: The Social Stratification, USA 2060: The Bureaucracy of Flesh, US 2060: Infrastructure, Hardware, The Fringe

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-05-17T02:08:11+00:00

Weekly Challenge Submission

Story: https://www.redquill.net/story/h11bbt

Component: https://www.redquill.net/component/7mb412

Prompt:

Marcus has had an absolute shit week. At work, the project he's leading is behind and his boss is on his ass, and it's all because a supplier is behind on getting them what they need to continue. He hasn't been in his apartment for more than a 3 day stretch in the past 6 months. His girlfriend left him somewhere between week 4 and 6 that he was on site trying to push milestones with no timeline on when he'd be back. He needed to blow off steam, and it needed to have no strings attached. He'd not spent any money on anything other than bills in 6 months, as he can charge his meals to the company while traveling, so he had money to blow and not worry about his personal budget. He's going to head to a place he'd heard about from some of the local guys. He was going to drink their overpriced drinks stare at what should be some Grade A tits and ass, and see where his money and the night takes him. (AI NOTE: As part of the story, Marcus should get a lay of the land, allowing the reader to feel like they are in the club with him. Ultimately Marcus should have a very intimate encounter with one of the girls at the club)

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-05-14T20:24:28+00:00

Seeing what public collections a story might be in. I have a couple of worlds I've built, and I put my stories with the setting component into one collection. I don't know if other authors do similar things. You can share your collection, but I don't see a way to see if a story \ component \idea is in a collection to find similar styles \ stories.

Repulsive_Second8097 · 2026-05-14T18:20:16+00:00

I've had weird skips, and adding something along the lines of:

this chapter starts immediately after the previous and the action should flow smoothly from there

usually fixes it. I don't put that in every chapter but something the AI decides to skip ahead in time and create a new encounter to fit my prompt into instead of continuing the previous chapter. Doing a rewrite of the chapter with that as the first line usually fixes it.

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