Executiveassistant:
well we started!

Executiveassistant:
Husband is interested in writing some stuff. Are people interested in the tales of our stuffings and gaining adventures? Maybe audio versions of them as well?

FF Team:
Hi Letters And Numbers,

Thanks for the suggestion. A table of contents is something we have considered introducing to the story section to make it easier for readers to navigate to chapters they want to read.

I will poke hiccupx about this one, as it may be on the to do list. We tend to go round the site and do improvements on each section in turn. So it could be the next time we work on stories this may be something we will add.

Cheers.
c00kie
FF Team

ValtheFA:
I'm trying to come back to finish out a WG series I started, at least just wrap it up so it's not unfinished.

I'm unsure why, but I have been trying to find references for plus-size gals, and... Let's just say it gets difficult when going beyond height, hips, waist, and bust.

For example, I'm trying to describe arms in a scene and now I can't for the life of me imagine a good arm size after gaining four-hundred pounds. Now, should I maybe just cut it out, or just describe it in flowery imagery? Probably. Will my brain let me? At the very least, not right now.

So I ask you all, what do you do for references? There used to be more accessible videos on various bbw's and ssbbw's that had good measurements, (Plump Princess had one iirc), but cannot find them atm.

Munchies:
Gotta remember people come in various shapes and sizes. Even at 400 lbs, an arm can look drastically different. If you aren't sure what body shape you want, go look at Google images.

Remember there are non-feedist people out there who are 400 lbs. In fact, there are weight loss websites out there with a database if pictures of people. You can pop in a height and weight, and it will spit out the closest match.

As for me, personally, I never include specific measurements unless it's important to the story. It's a real pet peeve of mine when people tell and don't show. Also ... so many male authors will say things like "She was so fat. She was 5'6", 130 lbs, and had huge C cups," and it's just an average size woman no one in their right mind would even call chubby. Or particularly busty.

Letters And Numbers:
There are many things exactly like that which can make for a good fetish story (weights and measurements are very popular), but drag down a story AS A STORY. I’m definitely guilty of that myself

Munchies:
A good story is a good story. Quality needn't suffer because it's smut. If it has the hallmarks of a bad story, it's a bad story. No shame in enjoying it anyway, but it doesn't make it good.

ValtheFA:
I'm trying to come back to finish out a WG series I started, at least just wrap it up so it's not unfinished.

I'm unsure why, but I have been trying to find references for plus-size gals, and... Let's just say it gets difficult when going beyond height, hips, waist, and bust.

For example, I'm trying to describe arms in a scene and now I can't for the life of me imagine a good arm size after gaining four-hundred pounds. Now, should I maybe just cut it out, or just describe it in flowery imagery? Probably. Will my brain let me? At the very least, not right now.

So I ask you all, what do you do for references? There used to be more accessible videos on various bbw's and ssbbw's that had good measurements, (Plump Princess had one iirc), but cannot find them atm.

Munchies:
Gotta remember people come in various shapes and sizes. Even at 400 lbs, an arm can look drastically different. If you aren't sure what body shape you want, go look at Google images.

Remember there are non-feedist people out there who are 400 lbs. In fact, there are weight loss websites out there with a database if pictures of people. You can pop in a height and weight, and it will spit out the closest match.

As for me, personally, I never include specific measurements unless it's important to the story. It's a real pet peeve of mine when people tell and don't show. Also ... so many male authors will say things like "She was so fat. She was 5'6", 130 lbs, and had huge C cups," and it's just an average size woman no one in their right mind would even call chubby. Or particularly busty.

Letters And Numbers:
Hey, there's interest!

I'm with you, and there are some incredible authors here that are writing serious stuff! And a lot of people who are writing amazing material who might love to get more structured feedback to improve. I think there are two issues.

1) Unless someone has taken a class or been in creative writing circles, a lot of people don't know how to critique a story and it's intimidating. It's a learned skill. I think there could be some focus on guidelines and techniques for creative criticism. I've found a few good essays and guides that could be shared.

2) People have an even harder time talking about kink content. There are tons of lurkers who I'm sure have great opinions, but critiquing someone's erotica story is kind of like putting your own kinks under the spotlight (even though we may all generally have the same kinks). This is a tougher problem to solve, but maybe if the critique focuses on structural storytelling issues it would make it easier to participate.

Does that make sense?

ValtheFA:
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense putting it into perspective. The pool is already super shallow as is with it being a particular kink, let alone deriving from that pool people genre savvy enough and willing to articulate their ideas online. I think where I was coming from was that people were already writing on forums about their kinks, is the next step so much?

There is a great bunch of writing peeps on Discord and DA called wg squared and it really helped to find a community that does overlap it. I think it might be a nice place to peruse and join if you are looking for other writing friends in this community, we even have monthly writing contests around random topics and such that this post seems to be looking for. This is the link to the DA page, with Discord being the same name and invite stuff in the group. www.deviantart.com/groups/wg-squared/deviations[/quote]

I’ll definitely check that out! I think we could put together a little group here, too, that could do some constructive criticism or help teach people how to give constructive feedback.