So, I’m an aspiring novelist, with a few unpublished but decently polished (in my opinion) works under my belt.
And I’m also super into feedism.
I’m wondering if anyone would be interested in reading a full length novel, with a main focus on weight gain, and a light plot to move things along.
I will say, I’m aware a lot of long form stories in this community can get bogged down in details that aren’t maybe that interesting to this particular audience. (No offense kipteitei)
My idea was a simple dark fantasy story, about an ever growing princess being protected by her rookie knight in a grim world. With, obviously, weight gain.
So again, main question, would anyone want to read 50k words or so of a slow burn relationship, and courtly drama surrounding a woman’s fattening?
I’m thinking of petite (110lbs~) to bbw or even ssbbw size (300-500 lbs)
Please reply if you’re interested, I have this outlined but I don’t wanna commit too much time if there’s no audience.
If you’re interested just in the story but aren’t a big novel reader, let me know if you’d like to see it in a visual novel format! It wouldn’t be too much harder to make that, with limited assets of course but a fully fledged story is easy to convey (though it would have to come out chapter by chapter in that case)
The only issue I have with longer stories is how easy it is for the fetish elements to feel shoehorned in. Worldbuilding, dialogue and character development don’t really amount to anything if “and then they got fat lol” gets thrown in every few paragraphs. It needs to be part of the environment. Not necessarily the main plot line, but integrated into the world enough that it feels at least plausible that these fetish activities could take place.
Otherwise, I’m perfectly fine with the idea. It’s always nice seeing different people’s takes on storytelling so I’d certainly give it a read.
Sure. Why not? As with any other literary experience, I’m going to dip out within the first thousand words if it doesn’t click.
I have potentially the EXACT OPPOSITE take to Wulf_whosamawhatsit’s. It always bothers me, disturbs my verisimilitude, shatters my immersion, whatever you want to call it, when “this setting endorses fetishes, HOW CONVENIENT!” For these sorts of long-form works, I prefer the fetish aspects to be more secondary, and for their incongruity to be part of the plot, ie, a queen getting fat causing rumors that have nothing to do (directly, anyways) with lewdness.
It wouldn’t be bad to give a try. I’m not an avid reader, but I do enjoy reading novels from time to time and lately been playing some VNs. I’m interested. However, if i read your novel, I’ll also provide my honest feedback.
I’ve wondered about this sort of stuff. I’ve wanted to find a kink novel that would have a great story and Weight gain or Hyperpreg kinks, but everything I’d find on Kindle was… not good.
I’d like to see it come to fruition, though! I am an avid reader, and I’d love to see a novel with a great plot that stars the kink. I personally lean onto worldbuilding that would enable the kink, but I personally love the shock of a slim woman realizing she’s bulking up to a colossal size over time. Still, it’s your novel, so write what feels the best to you.
Tbf that is pretty much what I was saying lol. The setting doesn’t have to endorse or support such activities, the fetish elements just need to believable within the plot of the story. For example, going from dark and gritty court intrigue to then immediately jump to “and then she ate a ton of food and her belly got really big and round and then they had sex awooga” is going to rip anyone right out of the immersion. Anyone who has ever browsed writing .com, you know what this feels like.
The sexy scenes don’t have to be explicitly propped up by the worldbuilding, they just have to be written in line with the rest of the story, plus whatever consequences may arise as a result. There shouldn’t be two separate stories shoved into one, they should interweave and influence each other.
You’re preaching to the choir. That’s good, I mean. I’ve also found a lot of these stories lack what I want in weight gain fiction which is primarily:
-realistic reactions and consequences (physical and social)
-conflict
-a reason to stay interested outside the kink stuff, because any story is bound to not just be “and then she ate a lot of food”. The problem is usually that those are the only interesting scenes.
-and descriptions of not just size or fullness, but hunger, taste, tightness of clothing, embarrassment,
-internal deconstructions of being fat in a courtly society, more specifically
I think a novel could be an interesting idea! I have been trying to read more, and I would personally be interested in a full novel with these themes. Although I also really like the idea of a new visual novel with a full story. And I think it would be a safer bet personally, quality VNs tend to do pretty well in this community like Project Realism, Forks, and Fattening Career. And it would add another selling point in that it has visuals which would make it easier to identify, and in turn help it reach a wider audience.
On the points you mention: One of the things you could work with is size and weight play as a consequence of weight gain. It’s something I love to both read and write. Both her physical as well as interpersonal experiences.
Much like the monomyth (the hero’s journey), you could start with a slim heroine as her “normal” and known world, and make deliberate writing on how her slender shape moves easily with the world around her; to writing how her weight gain over the course of the story causes her to get stuck in places, eat far more than she first imagined, notice vehicles struggle to move her. And finally, driving the nail home by comparing her experiences as a slim person with being a large one, especially when interacting with objects she was previously used to while slender.
That said, also keep in mind some of the more realistic reactions and consequences may not be attractive to a reader. On one point, some readers like fat slobs with little mind, while others prefer clean fatties that are still themselves. Likewise, health problems is something that’s not written simply because it’s not hot and in fact makes one sad. It’s part of the fantasy of a big person: The physical changes caused by abundance, not the problems and broken life it could cause.
I’d certainly be interested! I remember reading a WG novel - I forget the name but much of it was set on the high seas and port towns of the 1800s. I really liked how the WG managed to make sense in-world.
I guess I’d be willing to trade novels, since I’m writing one currently where a lot of the main heroes are fatfurs, and yeah, a lot of the advice here is pretty cogent. Having it make sense to the plot is key, don’t bring it up, and make sure it ties into the plot to some capacity.
As others have mentioned, someone has to be a really good writer for this to work. I think most people (myself included) like a little bit more short form out of playing/reading feedism because it is more focused on the actual weight gain. To get something more long form working, the actual story has to be rock solid, whereas in more short form writing you don’t really need the plot or writing to be as good to get something out of it. I feel the same way about games on here. Short games have a much lower bar for what I’m willing to play.
I feel like I’d enjoy it, although I think it might be easier for the community at large to digest as a sort of chapter-based serial rather than a full-length novel all at once. It lowers the bar of entry - people are more likely to get invested if they can just look at a small portion rather than having a full-length novel set in front of them - and allows you to get feedback from readers even as the novel is in progress. The caveat is that you’d need to introduce some of the fetish elements very early on to hook the readers you want, although I think a lot of the community would tap out if they didn’t find something to appeal to them fairly quickly anyways.
A serialized format also makes a bit more sense, I think, if you’re interested in selling the finished product. Again, throwing down even a few bucks for a fetish-based novel is something readers might balk at, especially if they’re not convinced of the quality or author’s intentions. But if you release the first part for free and charge 99c or something for each new chapter, that’s probably something that would make it easier for potential readers to swallow. That doesn’t stop you from selling a ‘collected edition’ later, either. There’s also the option to make it available through subscription services like Kindle Unlimited, but to be frank I don’t have any real idea of how that works or how viable it really is for authors to monetize it.