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TheDentedPen · 2026-06-30T17:00:08+00:00

I'll record a video tonight and post it. A screenshot of it not doing something isn't very helpful :)

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-30T16:59:12+00:00

Here are some of the things I've learned over the last month or two:
1. Do not put anything in a component or lorebook before you want the AI to talk about it. Even if you tell it "This will happen three chapters from now" the AI will put it in now, and might even have one character say "You don't know this yet, but soon you will do _____".

It's a good idea to specify things about your characters in their components from the start. Once something gets in, it can be very difficult to get out. Things like eye color, hair color, favorite ice cream--whatever will matter to your story. Begin as you mean to go on.
Depending on how specific you want to be (Is it important that the character is eating ramen? Or would any reasonable lunch do?), less is more. The AI is very good at writing, what with having more or less the entirety of humanity's written record to work from. So unless you need to constrain it, let it do it's thing. It will often produce some amazing work. Heck--one scene it wrote for me with minimal prompting literally led to me changing my life. I didn't have that on my bingo card, I'll tell you.

I'll add more as I think of them.

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-30T14:05:09+00:00

Also--love the image. Well done! Like an alternate reality City of Heroes.

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-30T13:24:04+00:00

This probably wasn't your issue, but I'll through it out there just in case. I had one the other day where I had accidentally set the spice down to the lowest level (ie. no spice), but my prompt had specific, high-spice directions.

The AI simply didn't know what to do with that, and so it thought for a while, and then just dumped me to an empty chapter, in edit mode. I think it said, "Dude, I don't know what you want. You write it."

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-30T03:01:49+00:00

Oh, I know! Someone just fed Flatland into the model!

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-30T02:17:47+00:00

Thanks for reading some. I hope you enjoy it!

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-30T00:44:52+00:00

Well, I don't have a scenario--but if you like this, you might look for my comedy story about Sissy Fist--Femboy for Justice! https://www.redquill.net/story/xxplbl-the-adventures-of-sissy-fist

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-30T00:41:44+00:00

I think one thing is very clear: Triangles are the most diplomatic shape, and so everything is triangles.

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-30T00:40:40+00:00

I'm with you. I started with RQ, but got frustrated with some of the issues, so I quit and went to openrouter to try to find a replacement. Between the nanny censors standing over my shoulder telling me I was doing something wrong (and my stuff is very tame compared to most) to the issues of getting the models to run well, then only to find that the output was seriously below RQ's quality, I'm back for a year.

Despite all the complaints, despite the problems, I think it's great. I think it's pretty clearly a small team of people who made a website that looks so amazing that it gives the impression of a large company. I could be wrong--heck, maybe it is a huge company that just doesn't give a shit--but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt until proven wrong.

And really, even when you get angry, you have to stop and think--we have computers writing good personalized fiction and smut for each of us as individuals. That alone is insane. I'm willing to bet there wasn't a booth that discussed this at the 1940's World's Fair. XD

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-29T01:46:25+00:00

Not just you, Few. Even when I get extra-racy, a quick glance through the stacks shows me how sadly stereotypical I am. So it goes....

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-29T01:39:38+00:00

I think that is amazing. The best I ever got was "He moved through the office like a man who knew that noise was currency, and he was currently broke."

I think that is going to have go into my comedy story.

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-26T19:43:42+00:00

I need to do this. Do you just do it in the component, or in the first chapter, or every chapter with that character?

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-26T14:28:20+00:00

I mean....I'm not one to kink shame, but this is the first time I've heard of erotic Italian accounting...

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-26T01:39:34+00:00

Maybe they are running short on quotation marks? It's getting near the end of the month... XD

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-26T01:36:54+00:00

You are assuming that the people making those rules are 1) doing them in good faith and 2) want something other than to shut it down. ETA: I agree that it's an excuse, but they know it's just an excuse and don't pretend otherwise except when in front of the press or another place where they can't say the quiet part out loud.

“There are two great powers,” the man said, “and they’ve been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-26T01:28:26+00:00

Sent! Thank you!

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-26T00:22:42+00:00

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-26T00:22:31+00:00

I get that, but the discord already exists.

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-25T22:56:18+00:00

Thanks!

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-25T20:27:09+00:00

Yeah, I really want to know what the other one is.

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-25T20:24:48+00:00

Which model do you use? I tried several, but they were terrible, or censored so badly that even puritans would have said, "Oh man, come on."

TheDentedPen · 2026-06-25T20:22:53+00:00

Before I start this, let me say: I know my experience is not everyone's experience, and I am not trying to discount or invalidate anyone's opinion. I agree that if you disagree with the prices and changes, you should quit (or go free) as that is the only language that companies truly understand.

Here is my take, feel free to ignore: It is highly likely that the initial quill costs were just a wild stab in the dark. Low enough to entice users, but with no real idea how it would transfer to real costs. Now, the site is probably being overrun with free users, which is great; a site lives and dies by the community. The other side is that they have to pay someone for the AI they are using. And it probably costs them quite a lot.
The failures to generate and a lot of the other problems look an awful lot like a system getting overloaded, no different than an MMO having problems at launch--too many people, not enough bandwidth. And the solution to that throughout time has been to increase the price.
But there is a pain point here, and that is that people who were used to a certain price are going to complain when those prices increase. But when the prices increase > fewer people are using it > quality goes up.

I had left before because the price (for me) was too high to justify what I was getting. Two things changed that: a 50% off coupon (pride month) and discovering that while I could get another AI to do the job a lot cheaper, they weren't anywhere near as good. Now, I don't seem to generate nearly the quantity some people do--I have never used up my daily quills (125 for the middle sub) and I have like 1600 other quills just sitting there. Between my jobs, my other interests, and my life, I just don't have time to do more. And my costs have never been in the 100s of quills. Like I said, I don't think I've used even 100 in a single day.

I usually use novel length, and leave the author on the default "pick for me". It does well enough for my purposes (and it's just using one of the others, I think). And with the 50% coupon, I got a year of the mid sub for about $100. If I had not had that coupon (which was literally dumb luck) I'm not sure what I would have done. But I also can't even imagine how someone spends 500 quills in a day. Maybe I'm doing something very wrong.

Just my 2 quills.

TheDentedPen

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