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^__^ - Coke’s Guide to Writing a Pretty Good Weight Gain Story.
Step A (Optional): Go to the bookstore and buy How to Write a Short Story the Sparknotes guide. ($7.95). Read it. It's a great starting point that covers all the basics of writing short stories.
1: Realize that 90% of Weight Gain literature readers are teenaged/young adult guys who aren't looking to read something the length of Gilgamesh. You should be aiming for something between 4 - 10 pages most of the time.
2: Understand that a typical novel is about 85,000 words or 190 pages. You need to fit all the rich content of a novel into a story of 5000 words or less. But trust me! It's not an impossible challenge.
3: A novel is a big story that leads to big change. A short story is a little story that leads to big change. Every good piece of literature needs four things: Conflict, Opposition, Risk and Change.
4: So imagine our story is about a girl named Sarah who's at Harvard and plays on the soccer team. Also, she has no troubles. In fact, she even leads her team to the playoffs! Now that would be a very dull story, right? Ok, let’s add Conflict.
- Now our story is about a soccer girl who goes to Harvard. But over the summer, she went on a vacation in Italy, and now she has a big Italian belly. Sarah is much slower and very out of shape, and there's only a month left before the season starts. If she isn't back to peak condition, she'll lose her spot on the legendary team!
Summary w/ Conflict:
Sarah needs to lose weight fast or she’ll lose her spot on an elite team.
-We need conflict in order to keep our story interesting!
-Ok! Let's add a touch of Opposition. Now let’s say Sarah is also a star programmer for Harvard's Robotics Team. Her best friends are also part of the squad, and she could help them win the national BattleBot competition if she only spent more time programming instead of practicing soccer. Let's have three of our protag's friends try to keep her fat so she loses her soccer spot. Sarah needs to face opposition in order to keep the story rolling as well.
Summary w/ Conflict & Opposition:
Sarah needs to lose weight fast or she’ll lose her spot on an elite soccer team. Her roboteam friends want her to help them program a mecha instead, so they try to keep her fat so she doesn’t have a chance at making the soccer team for the fall season.
Summary w/ Conflict, Opposition, and Risk:
Sarah needs to lose weight fast or she’ll lose her spot on an elite soccer team. Her roboteam friends want her to help them program a mecha instead, so they try to keep her fat so she doesn’t have a chance at making the soccer team for the fall season. If Sarah can help her friends program, then they have a huge chance of winning the $100,000 prize from the national BattleBot competition.
-Now here comes the exciting part, Change. Will our protag end up fatter, a programmer, and more close-knit with her friends? Will she drive her friends away while pursuing her soccer dream? What will happen to the protag? One thing’s for sure, our protagonist needs to have dramatic change. Seeing her change is what makes the story most interesting.
Full Summary w/ Conflict, Opposition, Risk, and Change:
Sarah needs to lose weight by the end of the summer or she’ll lose her spot on Harvard’s soccer team. Her friends Jenny, Lexi, and Sabrina are in the robotics club, and they want Sarah’s assistance in programming a battle mecha instead. The trio tries to keep Sarah overweight so she doesn’t have a chance at making the soccer squad for the fall season. If Sarah can help her friends program, then they have a huge chance of winning the $100,000 prize from the national BattleBot competition. Will Sarah be able to get fit enough for soccer? Or will rich Italian dinners and “friendly interferences” from her besties keep our protagonist carrying a gut and tipping the scales?
5: Now what I just described is more suitable for a novel. We need to remember our target audience—Young adult dudes who don’t want to read a novel but want the intensity of a novel. Alright, time to shrink everything down in size (except our protag’s waistline). We need to fit this story into a slice of drama.
****THE STORY WE WILL SUBMIT TO DEVART*****
- Our short story will only focus on one scene—the pizza parlor scene—this is where Sarah is at her fattest and has just came back from Italy two weeks ago. She’s been exercising but is still gaining weight (cough big dinners cough). Tonight, she’s with her best friends and they’re trying to coax her into helping them program for the BattleBot nationals. They’re promising Sarah the biggest share of money. They’re offering to buy her Italian dinners at her favorite restaurants a few times a week. In short, Jenny, Lexi, and Sabrina are going for broke.
-Tonight, Sarah will either continue pursuing soccer or she’ll help them program. There’s no room for little “compromises” in Short Stories, we need big dramatic things that serve as the climax. Sarah can either program or do soccer. Since this is a WG story, of course she’ll chose programming (and put on those beautiful pounds).
-Remember folks, you need to downsize your entire “novel plot” into one intense scene.
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6: Now that we have our story “outlined” with Conflict, Opposition, Risk, and Change it’s time to craft some WG fanservice! What is fanservice in the WG Lit community? An example sentence would be…
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“Fuck…I got one month to go, and three months of pasta to lose.“ Sarah says, gazing into the bathroom mirror. She looks down, and slaps a hand on the boulder of belly flab oozing over the belt of her jeans.
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- Fat play, stuffing, waddling, fat examining, squeezing, exercise fatigue, bra snapping, jiggling, fat teasing, belly pats, and stuckage are a few examples of fanservice. But believe me, many dudes share a hivemind when it comes to what’s sexy with BBWs. If you think the situation would be sexy, it probably is. Anyway, you need to merge the story with snippets of fanservice (but not too much or it breaks up the plot). Fanservice is one of the most fun parts of a story to write. But too much is a bad thing. You need to strike a balance between fap text and plot. They should flow seamlessly together.
Fanservice Summary: We should show Sarah being hindered by her fat, and also touching her flab in sexy manners. The best fapfiction WG writers (I’m not one of them by the way) have this down to a science.
-Alright, so how do we end this basic short story? What’s the easiest way?-
7: The timeskip method is an easy and great way to show off a gain while keeping the story moving. In my example, I could skip to a month later where Sarah’s huge from all the Italian dinners her friends promised. I could have Sarah’s soccer team in shock as they watch her jiggle into a classroom with two moons of flab for an ass.
8: Alright, time for a quick review. The basics of a good story are Conflict, Opposition, Change, and Risk. Weight Gain stories are not exempted from this blueprint. Figure out a plot involving those four things and then merge it with fanservicey text (and perhaps a stuffing scene). Finally, timeskip and show how large the protagonist has become. Those are the basics for writing a pretty good Weight Gain Story! Now get out there and write after the last tip! ^__^
9: To be a good writer you need to be a good reader. To be the best you must read the best!
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I feel the whole steps from conflict to change are not just exclusively to this category, I tried it on many other stories for characters and they are turning out great
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Hey, bud! Thanks for the comment on the ancient guide lol.
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You're welcome, and I know it's an example but that girl should find herself new friends, I in her place would've ditched them and compete on the thing all on my own and with the moneh Mwehehehehe >:3!
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Superb tips! As someone who's especially partial to the luxurious side of weight-gain, I often find myself making life a little to comfortable for my characters. The story then becomes a stack of overdone descriptive passages of their bulging indulgences. Stopping to ask myself whether there's enough conflict, opposition, risk and change really helps! Thank you!
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This is actually some really solid advice, and it has some things I never thought about, and I consider myself an adept storyteller. (and, yes, as usual, I've shown-up very late to this party). One of the things I've struggled with is linking good conflict to a good erotic plot; they rarely seem to go well together, as something that gets too heavy, dark, or intense just sets completely the wrong mood. A simpler, competing objectives conflict might not hit the same emotional complexity, but you can easily make-up for that with good character interactions, intimacy, and introspectives.
Though... well, let me put it this way: the "hive mind" is correct with regard to activity, but not with regard to extremity. Weight, jiggle, size, and softness are effectively the key components, and anything that emphasizes them will be found quite erotic, HOWEVER, it's also worth remembering that the preferred amount and allocation of each is very much not universal. Everyone has a preferred range and a preferred distribution, or perhaps a subset of different combinations of them, and some people have broader preferences than others. In other words, if you have one story with a girl peaking around 250 lbs and another where a girl goes beyond 500, you're likely to get two different groups of people, one that likes more moderate gains and one that prefers the extreme. Beyond that, the thighs vs. boobs vs. butts battle is just as much of a thing in the FA community, only here, there's an added player: bellies.
For example, you might have a particular follower who likes prominent bellies and moderate weights, say, 200-300 lbs, and they might struggle to fully enjoy a full-blown SBBW weight gain story. Now, FA's seem to be reasonably good at respecting each others' preferences, but even still, the SBBW fans are spoiled for choice, while the moderates have much more trouble getting good stuff for them.
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Time skipping is the bane of wg stories imo.. You're missing the best parts
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I'd time skip depending on the story really.
The key is to not artificially drag it out when you don't really have other plot-worthy content.
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I'd like to see the stuff you used as an example for a WG story sometime. It sounds interesting.
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Interesting guide. Will have to experiment with this and see how things go.
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I...but...downsizing hurts sir.
Downsizing my thoughts hurts.
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YOU MUST DOWNSIZE...downsize from 85000 words to 5000! ^__^
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7,000 is 15 pages...
Lol you wrote a novella!
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And now we know what goes through your mind when it comes to writing stories. STEALING IT!!!
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NO! DON'T TAKE MY SHITTY ADVICE
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But I can be less shit if I follow better writing advice
It means I'll be on coke senpai's level
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This is good overall, but a bit I feel it left out that I personally think is important is the importance of keeping things simple. If a scene/character doesn't push the plot forward, cut them out. If Sabrina's part in the story could be equally well played by Jenny, get rid of Sabrina, because you've got to explain who each character is, and it's quicker to say 'Oh, and they do this, too,' than it is to say 'and then this other guy comes in and does it.' Only have to justify one character's existence, not two.
As for the characters, you have to keep them consistent. If a character says they don't like pizza, don't have them eating pizza in the next scene. Also, why would you have them say that, how would that move the plot onward, remember what I just said.
I should also note I am pretty terrible at keeping things simple, I get too attached to little interactions between characters, or short scenes, and then I have to talk myself into cutting them out, and I mourn their loss later. I get more caught up in the fan-service than in the plot of a lot of my writings, but I'm trying to get better at that.
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You're definitely right about cutting characters and keeping them consistent. Also keeping things simple is a pretty big rule too. But I have some seen some complex weight gain plots pulled off marvelously though haha. I feel like my stories have a good mix of plot and fanservice, but I often have to take out plotty things when I remember my main audience XD. Anyway, the commissioner was very happy so I guess I did a good job XD. Lol, too bad I hardly even work with "normal girl" stuff like the Sarah example haha.
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This is, more or less, the same kind of method I follow when planning a WG story. Though, I don't usually downsize things if only because I usually can't find it in me to cut things down since I plug a lot of content into things.
In any case, a good guide to follow, never the less. It's nice to show folks how it's done so they won't fall into the traps of one of \those fics/.
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That's good to hear! I'm glad we're on a pretty similar wavelength XD.
It was a pretty odd commission request but this is my process haha.
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