hula hoops and hampster wheels

With my new years resolution to read more, I've decided that I'm going to try in purge the book in my head on to paper.

Right now, I'm in this outline process -- and as Gwennie learned this weekend - I'm not so sure about much -

I have this character - I call her GIRL or more recently Gladys per Gwen's suggestion. She is an average girl - brown curly hair, freckles, a little chubby --- she has a sister who she is in constant competition with over dumb things - but at the moment Gladys is just mad that her sister got a much better name.

Gladys has some problems, a goal and several obstacles. I know I'm being uber vague at the moment - just nothing is super official.

Gwennie thinks that Gladys needs to evolve throughout the story and she doesn't need a better job a fantastic boyfriend or a significant weight loss to be happy --- I agree but I'm having issues getting from the begining to the end and I just thought I'd have a little rant.

On the same lines -- I'm thinking of using a pen name -- since well this chick lit stylings is less than my literary background -- any comments?