The three things I am having trouble with, currently, are:
1. How the hell would a homeless survivalist really work in an area where there isn't going to be much rural/wooded surroundings to give her reprieve from constant exposure to modern living... and, even if I made it work, wouldn't the maintenance of that make it extremely difficult to establish and grow interactions between her and the other residents of the area?
2. Family connections for an 'supportively^' abusive backstory are proving to be extremely difficult to procure and organize... if I list them as deceased, it leaves major holes in the history. If I leave them as unknown, then I also have to explain why, and so then what happened to cause her to want to have nothing more to do with them? So on, so forth...
3. History. The more I flesh it out, the worse the details get, mainly due to #2 and the holes that have been developing the more I piece everything together. Rape/Murder & Death/Incest ... it's just getting out of hand, and it's increasingly disturbing to try and write about, in all honesty...