/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8975077]

I don't want to write about fat people. Not as side characters, not as main characters, not even as villains or background people. How are you supposed to write people you don't like and aren't even interested in?

When somebody writes a fat character, does it pull you into the story better, or no?

Generally I think that putting fat anything into your works is just not a good idea. I don't even think the old greats even bothered with them either.

[Anonymous No.8975084]

Is your mother obese? don't fight it, anon

[Anonymous No.8975087]

>>8975077
write about feet people

[Anonymous No.8975095]

just don't describe your characters in that much detail and the reader will imagine their preferred body type

social justice backlash averted

[Anonymous No.8975106]

>>8975077
>the old greats even bothered with them eiter

what is Gargantua and Pantagruel
what is Oblomov
what is my bud Sancho

[Anonymous No.8975107]

>>8975077
You can describe the characters as "portly" and you shouldn't be forcing characters into your stories if you don't want to.
>>8975095
Or this.

[Anonymous No.8975114]

>>8975106
what is falstaff

[Anonymous No.8975135]

>>8975095
what is Pnin

[Anonymous No.8975250]

>>8975077

>Having to physically describe your characters.

Way of the pleb.

[Anonymous No.8975263]

>>8975077
Have the characters escape through a narrow hole.

[Anonymous No.8975323]

>>8975077

In ref to fat people in literature.

Pierre in War and Peace, the most interesting character in the book, is characterised by his stout figure, fat hands and limbs, and love of eating.

And Ignatius from Confederacy Of Dunces.

Fat characters are an easy way to distinguish a character in the reader's mind, as well as a shorthand for comic relief/pity/grotesque. In a way it is cheating, a convenient way to add colour.

[Anonymous No.8975579]

i want to suck on those toes
cuck