Script Frenzy Begins - Character Name

I always get stuck on the simplest details when I'm writing. This time I am sort of at a loss for the name of the main character. She is about 85% me - but I don't want to call her Julie. I don't want a fancy new trendy name - so I thought about something that is as solidly simple as Julie such as Jane or Joanne. Neither of which are working for me. If you have a suggestion - please send it my way. Did I mention that SCRIPT FRENZY starts today!!!!

A Suffocating Cloud of Negativity

Against my better judgment, I tried to share my enthusiasm for my writing project this morning with a person with whom I am, shall we say intimately acquainted. Instead of asking questions to learn more or understand why I feel it necessary to participate in the Script Frenzy, the comments were all negative, discouraging, probing only to find a problem, and assuming that it was a contest and that I was going to strive toward some mediocre prize (which was the main issue). It was so frustrating. It is difficult living with a negative person. It is supremely discouraging. I have to get my head out of the choking cloud of comments, away from someone who wants to make snap judgments about everything without really taking any interest in understanding how they work or what they're about. There has to be one person in my life who does not feel like a hurdle to jump over toward any goal of success. Please. There actually are quite a few of you - it is just the ones I am most intimately acquainted or related to by blood that seem to love to rain on my parade. It's alright - I'm grabbing an umbrella.

Writing Like My Hair's on Fire

At least that's what I want to do. I am pretty jazzed about the upcoming Script Frenzy challenge that is going on, starting April 1st. There is a lot of cool stuff to do. It just so happens to be at a time when my life is so busy there doesn't seem time to do anything but to float along in survival mode. I hate survival mode.
I really don't have time for it - but at this point, I feel like if I don't take time to write, it is going to go by the way side, and I never will do it. As a result of never living toward my own hopes and dreams, I will succumb to a slow and painful death, dying a sad and crazy woman, mumbling "I'm a writer" "I'm a writer" through lips parched and swollen as those who come to wipe my butt in the nursing home look at one another and laugh knowingly that since I can now no longer get my fork to my own mouth without injury, I will likely never write anything worth reading.
Yep, not a pretty picture. Please support me in this Script Frenzy. It may be just the motivation that I need. You can even go here and get a little supporter's icon for your blog. Maybe you want to join too - super! It is not a competition. Let me know if you do so I can cheer you on!
Some ways you can support me are:

• ask me how it is going
• send chocolate
• ask me what my word count is
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• let me bounce story ideas off of you
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• read my blog regularly and tell me what a dazzling and brilliant writer I am
  
• send chocolate

Oh darn, pretty much just send chocolate!