Thank you so much! And thanks for the kind thoughts. I am working things out, and I am grateful to have people in my life that love and support me.

That's a good point - when you're in the center of the suffering, I couldn't manage being creative. It takes some amount of composure to actually turn that energy into something.

I just read your Desert Promise and it was just great. You are a really talented writer! A lot of great scenes with such a beautifully romantic couple. It is great!

Hi everyone, I just finished posting a short story called "Fat for a Day" which is one of several I've written recently, all with a theme of people being tricked or manipulated into gaining weight.

I'm treating them like an anthology series, which I've called "The Devil Made Me Do It," for reasons that become pretty obvious if you read the story, lol.

In the last month I've been really prolific in writing, which is unusual for me. My dive into writing has been a result of something other tough stuff going on in my personal life. It's nothing too serious (not life threatening or anything), but I am going to have a bit of a journey ahead of me.

I wanted to share this because, not only has being creative through writing been a positive outlet for me, but also I am finding that strife seems to be inspiring me. This is something I found fascinating as I've looked at my own creative process. It makes me wonder if being happy/content takes the gas out of my creative engine? Like, why write if you can just do something light and fun, you know?

I'd be interested in how other writers feel about the connection between mood and creativity.

I really miss seeing Emily's artwork. I am very sad to see that she has left the community, and I feel we are all the worse off from having lost her and her work.

I have a fanfic post here I've been adding to for a couple of years now! It's based on Spider-Man, or rather Peter Parker.

I posted it here because it's so heavily focused on weight gain, I figured casual comic readers would not be interested, lol. There is actually very little reference to the plots and behaviours of the source material. Basically I just took the characters and turned it into a sub/dom weight gain fiction!

Is it fan-fic or fat-fic? I am not really sure anymore.

How important are a good plot and character development is actually two questions....

Plot is the foundation. Even in fat fiction where the goal might be to arouse, a solid plot is a huge benefit. We have all probably read some meandering fiction where a character is gaining weight, but it just doesn't seem to have a point. There's nothing wrong with this, but something with a definitive plot will be far more memorable. Especially if it resonates through the characterizations!

What is good character development? I have read a lot of weight gain fiction where the first few pages just outline the main character. How they look, their background, etc. and often none of this is referenced at any point in the rest of the story. Maybe the author needed to know this, to write for the character, but they didn't need to put it in the story for the reader. So I would suggest that the right amount of character development is that which serves the story.

Length has a lot to do with it, too. In a novel we will be spending a lot of time with at least one character, and we'll have the opportunity to see them in a variety of situations (how they behave alone, with peers, with friends, etc.), so there's more opportunity to develop characters. In a short story, we typically only need even character development to get us into the action of the piece (so skip that first page telling us about their childhood and school life, unless it's directly relevant to what is coming up).

Clever character development is the best - giving us insight into the character through the actions in the story. If the reader doesn't even notice it, but now they have a feeling they really know this character.... For me, that is the goal.

I have never tried it but I have fantasized about it.

Sometimes it's not abuse of the system - I have gone back to my story to add chapters, but I have also gone back and corrected spelling, grammar, etc. So there are some valid reasons to revise it aside from just adding chapters.

I agree with this approach, it certainly increased what I needed to eat to feel full over time, but also I think it has been a big part of maintaining my weight over the last year or two. I am not trying to gain anymore, and I thought I would naturally just lose some weight, but that hasn't happened.

I don't think liquids are good for this, but I am not a doctor, lol. Maybe the body can just deal with excess fluid more easily, relieving the stomach too quickly? YMMV!

Really great advice!