Previously in 'Lalia Gains Weight'

Rated Moderately Mature for some nudity.

I hope you're still with me at the end of this part, as it's been the trickiest to write so far. When collating the material for it, I realised it fell far short of where it needed to be. So I introduced the character of Dr. Claire Belmont as something of a counterpoint to Jane’s personality, and to help Lalia conquer her fat girl demons. If Lalia isn't bubbly and confident, she might as well not be Lalia at all, so this chapter focuses on getting her mojo back. The beach shop scene is a particular case in point of how I wanted to do this without having to put Lalia through another stuffing. Dr. Claire and the beach shop owner act as surrogates for Lalia's more familiar personality traits before they re-emerges in herself. Appropriately enough, this was the part in the story where I found my own confidence in writing Lalia as a sexy, confident BBW.

Here Lalia undergoes something of a transformation here in terms of her character arc, meaning that even though she finds time to go up another couple of dress sizes, any weight increase is fairly unspectacular and more about consolidating her gain from the stuffing that ended Part 2. This metamorphosis is reflected in the language, as her largeness is initially described in relatively negative terms, which gradually shift positively as the chapter progresses. Apologies if the opening scene seems a little brief for anyone’s taste; I just didn’t want to spend pages and pages laboriously describing Lalia's post-binge shrinking and I also didn’t just want another stuffing episode when there was so much of that in Part 2.

My personal opinion on this part is a bit divided due to there being a lot of descriptive material going on here. There's not a lot of Lalia's trademark snappy dialogue which I enjoy both reading and writing so much, and I'm not 100% happy with the pacing. For those reasons I think at times the story bogs down somewhat. Then again, I think that groundwork is absolutely necessary and the effect all of those descriptions provide is important to have there. So I'd like to hear your opinions on this part; are you a fan of all the imagery of Lalia's fatness? Or do you miss that being referred to via dialogue? In short, I'm extra-interested in your opinions of Part 3.

Comments are as always welcome, no matter how long after the deviation is published; don't feel discouraged from commenting just because the story has been 'out' for however long. Feel free to ask me questions and offer criticisms about my writing and I will respond.