11.10.2008 - Brand New Features
Our server upgrade continues and it comes along with some exciting new features.  The Manage Books section has been revamped.  Manage the books you are writing and the books you are reading from one screen. Each book also displays the length in words next to the title.  You will now be able to check the length of your Quillpill stories without exporting.  This is just one more step in improving the drafting tool to be as easy to use and full-featured as possible and it came to us as a user suggestion.  We have a lot planned for the next iteration of the drafting tool, but please contact us with your feedback.  We love to hear from you and your suggestions help us know how the site is used and make improvements that matter to you! In particular, let us know how writing on Quillpill affects your style, your speed, and your enjoyment.  What can we do to make the experience even easier or more fun?  Right now is a critical time in development of the full release, so do not be shy. We have gotten a lot of great feedback regarding Quillpill's use as a drafting tool, and now we have introduced a feature that will make it much easier to edit your works; post insertion. Simply click the arrow next to your post to insert a new post above it.  With delete and insert, you should find it much easier to revise large portions of works, whether you are polishing the language and spelling or re-tooling the character development. The format is the same as posting which means you can revise from your mobile phone just as easily as you draft. Keep those thumbs going.  The zero issue of Quillpill Quarterly was a great success and we are excited about the next one.  We are watching the site and reading a lot of great work, but feel free to point out your favorite authors if you think they should be in the new issue. In the next few months we will be seeing a lot of progress on the release version of Quillpill.  There will be a ton of new features and we will be releasing it here in the closed beta before it is publicly launched.  Stay tuned for more updates on that. Thanks again to everyone who's using Quillpill and everyone who has sent in feedback, bug reports, or information on how they use Quillpill and what they would like to see!  Keep it coming. (...)

Contract Quota - By rask
The debt stays on record, just in case they ever manage to have more money to take, but generally by the time a corp fires someone; no care.

The bad workers are dumped. Everything that can be taken is taken and they're thrown to the fringes.

Now the good ones that aren't good enough to be management are so in debt they don't have a choice but to stay, or their bills come due.

For semi-skilled knowledge-based workers, corps used to have a difficult time keeping staffed. Good workers moved around, bad got fired.

The corps don't mind. The more in debt you are, the less likely you are to leave your job. This is important for the service industry.

Most people keep living like they did in college, on their corporate credit accounts. You'd be surprised the amount of debt allowed.

If you don't make it big, you have to live frugally. Problem is, you've been living high for the last five years, and you're still a kid.

You can pay it off faster if you skyrocket through promotions. If you're successful, the college debt seems like a blip on your history.

So, you work for the corp that paid your bill. No problem. You pay off a little at a time, and by the time you retire, you'll be clear.

Problem is, you end up out of college owing a particular corporation more than you can hope to make in the next ten years.

On the corporate dime, you eat great, you live great, you focus on your studies. They even foot the bill for "personal enrichment" trips.

Corporate funding for your education leaves you with a mountain of debt. They provide all sorts of mandatory perks, you see.

Contract Quota - By rask
I managed to come out of college free and clear. I'm not sure that I should have.

HTISML Notes - By blink
Boots. It can start with the first military surplus purchase and then continue to reference them throughout. Literary and iconic.

The Argus - By zeitgeber
They get her into the car and drive her halfway into downtown and dump her there.

she's stumbling on the way to their car. She looks drunk and groggy. She looks bewildered.

the place is a fortress from the mirror. They didn't kill cams, they just found somewhere happily obscured.