Samantha Harper finally meets the man of her dreams, but she sleeps with him too soon. Like anyone, she wishes that she could take it back. Unlike everyone, her wish comes true! She goes back in time, and gets several chances to wait longer and longer to have sex with him, until she finally figures out exactly how long she’s supposed to wait to have sex, if she wants him to fall in love with her.
Targeted Age Group:
18-35
What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
To write anything long-form you have to have a lot of discipline. You have to be willing to push through the hard days and the days when you don’t feel inspired and do the work anyway. Before you try to write a novel or a screenplay, be honest with yourself about who you are. Are you the type of person who can stick it out, even when it gets tough and people are giving you hard notes that you don’t wan to hear? Are you the type of person who can take that criticism and use it to make your story better? Or will you give up or get bored and move on to something that inspires you today? If you don’t think you have the discipline, but you really want to write, start with commercials, short films, or tweeting. If you love it enough, you will eventually be able to train yourself to follow through in longer formats.
Author Bio:
Monique Sorgen was born and raised in San Francisco, spending summers and winter holidays in Paris, with her mom’s side of the family. Sorgen is half-French. She wrote her first chapter of a book in 5th Grade, based on the adventures, drama, and goings-on of her classmates at her French-American grade school. She sent her writings to Judy Blume, and in return became the proud recipient of a printed form letter and autographed picture, thanking her for being a fan.
Sorgen moved to Los Angeles, shortly before her 18th birthday, to attend UCLA’s school of Theater, Film, and Television, where she studied directing for theater and film. Her directing pursuits lead her to writing screenplays, that she hoped to direct. Her screenplays lead to jobs writing for television, and later lead to jobs writing movies which have yet to be made. Her desire to share her stories without having to wait for a studio’s “green light” lead her to writing novels. The use of the plural in the word “novels” is slightly exaggerated, since this is her first one. Or maybe it’s premonitory, since she plans to write more.
Her debut novel, “How Long You Should Wait to Have Sex”, is based on Sorgen’s true mind-wonderings about how great it would be to get a do-over when a seemingly perfect guy disappears after sex.
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?I was inspired to write this book because I experienced what my character experienced. I met a guy I really liked, and his feelings for me seemed to change after we had sex. I knew we would have been good for each other, but I was no longer in a position to prove it to him. He wasn’t calling me anymore. I wished I could’ve done things differently. And I knew that I couldn’t, but in fiction, someone could. So I played the whole thing out in the book. What if a girl went back in time to the day she had sex and just didn’t. Would things go differently?
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