Thank you so much to everyone who has got in touch with questions for the Q&A. I am very surprised at how many there were. I’ve not been able to get to all of them, however you may find that your question has already been answered from the previous that I did, back in July 2019. Do you write outside of the gainer genre? No, but I would certainly like to. My job does not allow an awful lot of creativity, which is why these stories are now so numerous. What is your experience like in terms of receiving correspondence from readers of your stories and the interaction which follows? Only a very small number of people ever get in contact with me. I see from how many likes and re-blogs people make of my work, but the actual readership of them is still a mystery. People who do get in touch are always lovely. I have no complaints, or horror stories to tell. Which of your gainer stories was the hardest work to write? Some pieces can sit on my computer for a long time. My collection of half-finished stories grows every week. I was really pleased when ‘Unemployed’went down well, because that story had been collecting dust for a long, long time, without me feeling confident that it was good enough to post. So, I suppose, the hardest stories to write are the ones that you haven’t seen yet. I’m very aware that a lot of people into this scene identify as asexual. And so, for representation, I have been trying to write a story centred around an asexual character. It has been years in the making and is almost complete, but I’m just not happy with it yet. One day you might see it pop up. If I had to choose, that one has been my most difficult one to write. Whereabouts would you say most of your stories are geographically located? I set most of my stories in the United States because that is where the majority of my readers are. It’s also a place that is famed for gluttony and overindulgence, so it makes perfect sense. However, I think most readers can spot (from certain spellings and phrasings) that I am not based in the USA myself. Which of your characters do you love the most? I love lots of my characters, but I do love a genuine glutton! I think the most recent character I fell in love with was Ben from ‘The thrill of the Chaser’. There was just no way he wasn’t going to end up as a very big man! Which of your characters do you loathe? Will, from ‘Quicker, Faster, Fatter,’ was an awful person. But, as much as we hate ourselves for it, we all still loved him. In fact, he even inspired a couple of messages from readers because he was so unusual for my style of writing. Believe it or not, my stories do usually have some sort of moral code to them. Will was a beautiful asshole, and I definitely allowed him to get away with it. Has the way you approach writing a gainer story changed since you first started? No. I will perhaps spend a lot more time on them now than I used to. But I write the stories for myself, and always have. I never chase the big numbers of re-blogs or likes, by catering to others. How often do you receive requests and suggestions for stories? How helpful have these been, generally? I will have suggestions from time to time. However, as I noted before, I write these stories to entertain myself first and foremost. And so, the prospect of spending hours and hours writing something that caters to someone else’s fantasy, does not interest me all that much. I read a lot of gainer stories before I started writing my own and I can usually tell when someone simply wants a revamped version of something they have read in the past. I named the blog ‘Original Gainer Stories’ because I wanted all of the pieces to be completely fresh. There are plenty of stories already out there about the football jock being fattened by the coach… What do you think of the trend for putting gainer-related content on Patreon and OnlyFans? If I had to pinpoint the biggest shift in this scene since I started writing (three and a half years ago), this would be it. I can absolutely understand why gainers create content for fans and use the funds to support their goals. It makes perfect sense – and good on you if you already are doing this! However, for me, I want to support this community in the best way that I can. I don’t need or expect money to write the stories that I write. I am very proud that if you type ‘gainer stories’ into Google, my blog is the first result to come up. Hopefully, in the future, it will be a source of inspiration for even more people. I would love to have written someone’s favourite-ever gainer story, or made them feel less alone for having the interests that they have. Will you make a Kindle book of your stories? This was a surprisingly popular question. I’m not really sure what the draw for this is, since I always make my content completely free to view on Tumblr. I’m not motivated by money, and never have been, so it is not something I am looking at doing at the moment. Would you ever write a straight gainer story? I do write straight gainer stories! Many of my ‘Original Gainer Stories’ are also featured on the site ‘FantasyFeeder’ as straight gainer stories. Thankfully, they’re very well received and have somehow garnered the most ‘likes’ on that site over the last two years that I have been posting them. Although, I am looking for a new, more permanent home for them, in the future. If you’re looking for other things I’ve been involved in, I also contributed three chapters to a community gainer story, posted by Gainerstories last year. Check it out here. Which of your most recent stories have you enjoyed writing the most? The most fun to write was probably ‘F80 Control’. This was because it was a genre that is completely new to me (and fairly underused in gainer stories in general). I got very caught up in the plot and, if I had to critique it, I would probably say the actual events overtook the gainer aspects in the end. But I had a lot of fun while writing. Do you prefer writing realistic gainer stories, or magic weight gain? Magic weight gain stories are always a bit ‘hit or miss’ with people. But, as a writer, they’re sometimes a lot more fun. You can break the rules and play the world how you want. You can have genuinely wicked characters and you don’t need to worry about them getting what they deserve in the end. With realistic stories, fattening takes time, and stories have to be written in a certain way to allow that to happen. Sometimes that can be rather constraining. What things inspire your stories? There are so many sources of inspiration. I can find them in everyday life, speaking to certain gainers, and even a simple picture, here on Tumblr. I think you should all try it. Find a picture of someone deliciously plump and then try to create a backstory for them. How did they get that way? What things happened to make them look like that? Before you know it, you have your story. Which of your characters have made cameos in different stories? If you’re looking for crossover points in my stories, you will find plenty. I do see the majority of the stories being within a shared universe. Most of the references are obscure and only serve to amuse me personally. However, there are very common crossover points in the magic-themed gainer stories that I write. For example, the ending of ‘Xavier’s Mass Cure for Witch-Hunters’ was told months before, in a story called ‘Sexting.’This was because I was already working on the story, long before writing ‘Sexting’ - even though this was shared first. So, if you’re looking for cross-over characters and events, you’re always best looking within the magic-themed stories. Will the Covid-19 pandemic feature in your fiction? Yes, the pandemic will exist in this world... eventually. When the lockdowns all started last year, there were a flurry of gainer stories being posted about people getting fat during their time stuck at home. However, I personally felt that these were a little too ‘on the nose’ for what was happening. I don’t know your circ*mstances, or how this crazy time has impacted you. But while we are all in the middle of it (and at the time of writing, we very much are still in the middle of it), there will not be any reference to the pandemic in my stories. But, fear not, I certainly do have some fun ideas for how to explore this, once things settle down. Do you enjoy reading your own stories? Absolutely not! I can finish writing a story, but I will never be done with editing it. If ever I read one through, I will always spot a typo, or small errors that needs correcting. It makes the experience stressful and not something I would choose to do. Do I enjoy reading other people’s gainer fictions? Yes, most definitely. What will be the 150th story be about? I toyed with a lot of ideas for the 150th outing. I used the 100th story to tie up the Wright/Beckett saga that had developed. But, this time, it will be a stand-alone story. Told over several years, ‘The Seven Feeders of Finn’ is the tale of the seven men who changed Finn’s life forever; written from each of their perspectives. Only one of these seven guys will be Finn’s ‘happily ever after’ – but which one? Look out for the story this Sunday, 14th March.
