RedQuillers,

Here’s a roundup of what we’ve shipped, what we fixed, and what we’re looking at next.

This week includes big upcoming feature launches next Wednesday that Premium RQ subscribers can preview, as well as fixes for several visible frustrations you’ve reported, including streaks resetting, paragraph tools corrupting text, and the header disappearing after writing.

Just to let you know: writing reliability work is still ongoing ambiently. More chapters are now being handled through faster routes that have been failing less often, and some writes now try an additional service first when the usual path is slow. We’re continuing to monitor both reliability and writing quality, but the major prose issues should have been fixed (some recent problems with prose didn't seem to be prose per se, so we appreciate any really specific examples you can find if you do- and to share them here since we're actively looking at all the examples).

🚢 What's shipped

• 💥 Premium early access is live. Premium members can turn on Early access from the account menu to preview three larger updates:
  • A simpler, prompt-first Create screen
  • A redesigned Reader, including Fork and Roleplay from any paragraph
  • Explore, a new Roleplay experience where you step into the story as a character and choose what you Do, Say, or want to happen
• 💥 Components now have likes and forks. You can heart a component and find it later in Library → Liked, or fork one to create your own private, editable copy
• 💥 User blocking is live. You can block someone from their profile, comments, stories, components, or chat messages. Their content and notifications disappear for you, and they can no longer comment on your work, follow you, or invite you to collaborate
• Component pages have also been redesigned with clearer details, AI instructions, newest comments first, related components, and public stories using that component
• Component creators can now receive notifications for new comments and when their public components reach use or favorite milestones
• The home page is less crowded for new users. The starter checklist is now the slimmer Prologue Quest, and the weekly contest has moved into the main slider

🐛 Bugs fixed

• Streaks should no longer reset when you didn’t actually skip a day. Writing while low on Quills now counts, one missed day pauses instead of breaking the streak, and a reset falls back to the last milestone reached instead of the last reward claimed. Previously lost streaks are not automatically restored
• Paragraph Extend and Rewrite no longer drop letters or move blank lines after Accept and Save. They should also understand that more text follows the paragraph instead of writing as though the chapter ends there
• On desktop, the header, sidebar, and Quill count no longer stay hidden after a chapter finishes
• Fixed the crash that showed an “error 500” page, especially on contest pages. Older open tabs may reload once after an update instead
• Signing up or logging in now returns you to the story or page you were viewing instead of dropping you on Home
• Discover → Components no longer dims the entire grid while loading more, and the mobile grid should stay within the screen

🔭 What's ahead

• The new Create, Reader, and Explore experiences will roll out more broadly after early-access testing. We are planning to release these next Wednesday. Please share with us feedback if you end up trying these experiences as a Premium user.
• We know universal story settings can still be missed by some paragraph tools. A fix is being retested; it is not live yet
• Mobile apps: Android is release-ready but not live in the store yet. The latest iOS update remains delayed in App Review with potential for full rejection. We’ll announce launches once they’re confirmed

💬 Community

• RedQuill Inktober is live here on r/redquill. Every day in October has an official Inktober word. Use it in a new or existing public story, then comment in that day’s Reddit thread with the story link and a screenshot. Each day you participate earns 1 free Advanced Write, up to 31 total. Rewards are credited weekly. Full rules here
• We’re also working on a Spooky-themed story contest for October. More details soon!

❤️ 🪶 Quill on!

🖊 Welcome to RedQuill Inktober!

Inktober (inktober.com) is usually a drawing challenge. We're doing it with words. Every day in October has an official Inktober prompt. Your job: work that word into a story on RedQuill, then show us where it is.

How this works

1. Find the day's Reddit thread
2. Use the day's word in a story: a new one, a new chapter, or your ongoing saga
3. Comment in that day's thread with
   1. a link to your public story (required)
   2. a screenshot of the word being used in your story - share however much you want
4. 🎁 Every day you comment = 1 free Advanced Write. Post on all 31 days and that's 31 Advanced Writes on us.

Remember: You CAN edit your story without having AI generate the word. Totally allowable is you going back to old published stories, and finding that word too.

How to claim your 🎁 Advanced Writes

We will tally entries every week and credit your Advanced Writes in one batch with a weekly recap.

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Start writing: redquill.net

Prompts are from the official Inktober 2026 list (inktober.com). RedQuill isn't affiliated with Inktober. We just love a good prompt.

Newly minted: a fresh new component. I couldn't find another one like it, so I made my own.

26 Epic length chapters, all three peppers. All gas no breaks!

Auto Blurb: A cocky college football star meets his match in an intense sociology grad student. She demands total submission, turning him into an obedient tongue so he can earn her touch.

Tags: Femdom, Pussy Eating, Sissy Transformation, Forced Feminization, Hypnosis

Real Blurb: Fresh off a near national championship linebacker Jason Westgate meets his match in a mysterious red haired grad student at a party. The fact that she doesn't seem to want to give him the time of day only increase his desire for her. She gives him a series of tasks that only seem more deviant as time goes on. Will he broaden his horizons under her guidance or retreat back to the easy hookups he has known so far?

I had a couple of goals going into this 1) Try out plan mode to see how it did at making things less cliff hanger like at the end of chapters. 2) Use spark to see how it worked in comparison to Ember and Ink. 3) Figure out if the new quill economy was going to work for me.

Short answers 1) Plan mode for 4 chapters was a good base to the story. I didn't use it past there but the by then the model was picking up on what was going on. 2) Spark was pretty good, it had some continuity issues after about 15 chapters. But that was true with Ember as well. If I had just been more diligent with updating the lore book it probably wouldn't be a problem. 3) It works for me, but I have enough free time to write one or two chapters a day at most plus my streak is putting an average of more then 100 quills in my bank every day so it costing a few more isn't a problem.

I've done a few short stories now. Maybe a compilation is in order.