I have two pieces of advice:
1) do anything Built says, because he’s among a very tiny group of weight gain writers who is consistently excellent year after year; and
2) read lots, and then analyse the ones you like so you can figure out why you like them.

Oh, yeah. And then just keep writing, 😁

Primarily 3, with occasional bouts of 2, but I’d hope he would get me treats if I ask!

There's loads and loads of artists across the centuries who have liked various forms from slightly chubby to genuinely thick. The appreciation for what we might think of as ssbbws is, I think, a 20th C phenomenon.
Get creative with your search terms and phrases, and look in image searches. Botero is great, and Rubens, of course, but there's Niki de St. Phalle, some of Tamara de Lempicka and Lucien Freud's women, the Norwegian artist with the famous scupture garden in Oslo..., Anyway, lots. There's a Fat Art page on Pinterest, and there used to be a few websites, too--I'm sure there still are, but they're just a littler harder to find now.
Don't give up hope--keep searching!

It must be just me, since no one else seems to have reported it, but I can't get the chat part of the page to load. It happened both last night and tonight, I think, or at least the last two times I tried. The regular part of the page loads, but not the chat window.
I'm using an iPad, and the OS needs updating, so I guess it could be that if I'm the only one with the problem.
Otherwise, I'm really enjoying it, so thanks!!! :-)

Hi,

I am really enjoying your story, and it's very well-written from a number of perspectives. You should be really pleased.
However, there are a number of minor issues--tense changes, misspellings, extra words, etc--that could be cleaned up by an editor, if you can find one. Ideally, someone would do those corrections AND explain them to you, so you have a chance of correcting them yourself next time.
I know that's hard to do because of the content; we can't show this work to just anyone. And if you continue to post work like this, it will still get a lot of love, including from me. But if you could find someone, it would help.

I stand--or lie down, at the moment--corrected. I've just seen an 8x in their sale section.

These aren't cheap, but lots of choice of colours and styles, semi-custom, and they to up to 5x, I think:
www.loveyourpeaches.com/shop/listcats.aspx

As you'll see, they have other great clothes, too. I wish I could afford more of them!

I find this an even bigger problem in the UK than in the US, but Tubby Marie is right. If the GP says something about your weight, just say your immediate concern is your chest infection. If he doesn't listen, just walk out and go to an after hours GP.

One thing I find helpful is to think about a story you really love, and then think about why you love it. Great characters? A specific scene? Food detail? Different things work for different people, and the most important thing, I think, is to write something that works for you. So get familiar with your own taste and preferences first.

Hope that helps!

I just had two docs make five attempts at getting a blood marrow sample from me and fail. While there were some far more important reasons they failed, they very discreetly suggested it might also be my size, and that there was someone in the hospital who had been successful on someone EVEN fatter than I am.

I am 5'2" and weigh 245. Can't be true.