I have a question:

I've been having difficulty with this because in general, my fiction tends to be very different from my life. I know the theory of "write what you know", but what would be ideal for me is very different from what would be ideal for a character.

Plus, my own deflowering was very nice, and would be hard to top in fiction without it becoming wildly implausible (which I also don't want to do). But, again, I don't want to write autobiography, I want to write fiction.

Second, should the character *know* ahead of time that they're going to be deflowered or should it happen as a surprise or does it not matter?

Third, do we have to use first person, that is, the way you have the assignment is to assume it's us, as writers, reliving a better first time, so that would imply first person as well.

I'd like to modify it to write a deflowering scene that went well for a fictional character, if possible. Not necessarily ideal, either, because I find perfection boring, but definitely good... Is that too far out of bounds of your assignment? If so, I'll try to do it as written, but I fear it will be horrid.