WG-Squared

WG-Squared FAQ ( section is WIP thanks to group conversion to Eclipse)

🥧Welcome to the Weight Gain Writers Group!🥧

🔗Discord Link: https://discord.gg/nrXwy6w

The Weight Gain Writers Group (or WGWG or WG2 or WG² or even WG-Squared) is a place where authors of Female Weight Gain and Fat fiction can post their works, talk about common interests & techniques; and generally critique, commiserate, and communicate the woes and wonders of writing tales of female WG. Our stories feature everything to do with BBWs & SSBBWs from fat to obese to beyond, as well as feeders & feedees and other standards of this kind of fiction.

As there has been repeated issues with submissions we would like to clarify here, submissions must be female WG ONLY. Male WG is not acceptable, at all, even if it's only in the metaphorical margins.

WG² is also a place where fans of such fiction can come to hang out with the creators. Where they can peruse the stories and make comments upon them as well as ask questions about them and the people behind them.

Our Muse Rosalie!

At the top of WG²'s masthead you'll see a beautiful girl tirelessly typing away. She is the group's muse, Rosalie. I humbly thank artiste extraordinaire @Satsurou for graciously creating and drawing Rosalie! Everyone please give Sats a big round of applause!

Roles, Rules, & A Guide for Posting Your Stories:

The admin team here at WG² has had many lengthy behind the scenes discussions about just what we want this group to focus on as well as what we do not want to focus on. One of the things we don’t want to focus on are stories about fat males. Sorry but we wanna keep it all about the ladies around here. That also means the women should mostly be women, no excessive anthropomorphism. Tails and animal ears are okay, more than two breasts or udders, not okay. Also we only want stories where the woman is fattened up by FAT. No inflation - air or water or otherwise. Furthermore NO food stuffing stories where the woman remains skinny - if the gut grows so must the rest of the body.

Stories should be over 200 words. Stories that we do accept can be of a magical or pseudo-scientific means for gaining or just plain good ole fashioned eating! They can be fan fics or original characters. The bottom line is as long as they’re about fat women and/or women getting fat then we’re a-okay with them being submitted here!

This brings me to our expectations of the contributors and members here.

Contributors: As the name implies, Contributors MUST contribute. Contributors will each get their own folder to display their individual stories. If a members feels they had made, and will continue to make, substantial contributions to this group then they can request to become a contributor, and in turn receive their own folder. There will be no defined outline as to what level of contribution is needed, but use your fellow contributors as a barometer of success.

Contributors must self moderate their own folders. If you find others posting stories in your folder please notify an admin to resolve the situation. There are just too many stories and folders for us to police them all the time.

Also if a contributor would like to become a part of the admin team we welcome any and all applications. Just send us a note and we will discuss the option of having you join the team.

Note: The prior guidelines for contributor were different, so some members have been grand fathered into a folder. If you are a member and have a folder please let us know so I can make you a contributor.

Please do NOT submit anything to the Favorites folder. We have special plans for that folder that you’ll read about in a minute. Anything that gets submitted there that doesn’t fit into those plans will be deleted. We appreciate your diligence and cooperation in this matter.

Members: There are essentially two types of Members here at WG². The first type is someone who has a few stories they'd like to share here. We welcome you to submit your work into one of our genre folders in the gallery. If your story fits into multiple genre's pick the folder that you think primarily represents your story. If nothing applies, and you feel we need to create a new genre folder please let me know and we will talk about adding it. You're under no obligation to join in otherwise, although we'd like you to. If you do eventually post more stories and would like to be a more active participant you can always petition to become a Contributor.

Members will have to self moderate the genre folders, along with the rest of the participants of the group. Anything that doesn't meet our standards (non weight gain, non female, non prose) needs to be brought up to an admin for review. There are too many submissions for me to review them all, so if you folks see something fishy, please let me know so I can review it on a case by case basis.

The second type of Member is not necessarily a writer of WG fiction but definitely someone who enjoys it and wants to support those that create this type of prose. We encourage participation by posting opinions and comments, but there's no requirement to do so. Just reading and perhaps adding some of our authors' stories to your Faves is really all that's necessary.

But no matter what category of Member you fall into, feel free to submit pertinent deviations to be included into our Favorites folder. You may also vote on deviations that get submitted by others. However, please be aware that we do not want any pure prose in there, that should go to the Gallery folders. We will ONLY be accepting comics or drawings with accompanying prose. The key word is that they must have words and not simply pictures, after all, we're here to support WG writing. No offense to our fellow WG artists, but there are plenty of other places for WG art. Please see below for more information on our Favorites section. We also encourage members to send us notes and comments on how they feel we can improve things here. We’re always open to suggestions. Finally, any Member may petition to become a Contributor but they must first meet the Contributor requirements above in order to have their status changed.

The Favorites Section: Regarding the Favorites section, we would like it to be a place for things that are still story related but not purely prose. We’ve talked about this a lot in our admin meetings and we’ve decided to only accept comics or illustrations with accompanying prose for inclusion there. Most other groups on dA feature illustrations and here at WG² we would like to do that too, but only in as much as the illustration is in service to a story. So, bearing all that in mind, please respect our wishes and do not submit simple pictures, only pics that have writing attached. Anything else will be summarily rejected. Again, as with our pure prose submissions, they must be about fat females and WG. Also, much like the gallery, we’ll be trying to keep things fairly organized there. We’ll either have the various submissions corralled by creator or, if it’s an ongoing series, we’ll put it in a folder with the series’ name on it. Please respect our wishes and do not violate these rules or you may find yourself banned from the group.

How to Submit Your Stories: We’ve had several people ask us how to submit their stories here. Thanks to the oxymorons at dA the submission process is simultaneously simple yet not very intuitive. However, fear not as I am going to give you step-by-step instructions on how to submit your works for inclusion here at WG².

*(note: this will likely be rewritten based on Eclipse's formatting changes)

• 1. As previously stated, you MUST be a Contributor or Member to submit your works to the group.

• 2. Go to the Gallery. All Contributors must submit their stories into the folder with their name on it in the Gallery, all members must submit their stories into the general genre folders. Prose submissions to the Favorites folder or into the Gallery’s Featured folder will be deleted in the case of the former and moved to the appropriate author’s folder in the latter.

• 3. Find your folder in the Gallery. A quick way to do this is to find your name in the “Gallery Folders” menu bar to the left in the Gallery. These are listed alphabetically in hyperlinked text so just click on your name to open your personal WG² folder. It should be set up for you to submit your works, if not send a note to the group and one of the administrators will change the setting so you can then submit at liberty without having to wait for approval - as long as you follow the criteria for acceptance stated previously. Submit as many of your stories as you want, there is currently no limit.

• 4. Once in your folder you will see a button towards the upper right area titled “Submit to This Folder.” Click on it.

• 5. A pop-up menu will appear with two options: “Submit a New Deviation...” & “Contribute an Existing Deviation...”

• 6. Choose “Contribute an Existing Deviation...” this option will essentially link your already submitted deviation from your own dA page to your folder here in the group. This way any comments, favorites and pageviews you get will be credited to your original deviation. We here at WG² only want to act as a medium for people to showcase their works, not take credit for them. We want to promote, not pilfer.

• 7. After you click the submission button a new window will open showing your Gallery of deviations. Simply choose a deviation by clicking on it - the deviation will become highlighted. Then click “OK” - which is highlighted in green - at the bottom of the window. (subject to rewording due to, again, Eclipse format change)

• 8. Repeat steps 4 through 7 above until all the deviations you wish to submit have been posted. Congratulations, you have now become an active participant at WG² !

Hopefully this document has been helpful. Feel free to send us a note if you have any questions that were not answered here or if you have any concerns or ideas on how we can improve the group to better serve the WG writing community. We want to foster communication and encourage creativity inspired by the fat women we all love and admire.

Take care all; we hope you enjoy your time here at the Weight Gain Writers Group!

@steve-aka

Former Founder now found as Co-Founder

mr-monopoly

Current Founder

Edits

[updated 28.01.2015]

[updated 17.04.2016]