Cinderella retelling or Snow White?

 Ughhh. 

Why did I think this was a good idea? 

I'm having problems figuring out internal motivation. I always struggle w/ internal motivation. It's like an equation that never got properly formulated in my head. 

See a hero has goals and motivations and conflict. Both external and internal. The internal is part of their shard of glass pain. That much I figured out. 

So she wants the house but her stepmother refuses to sell it to her, so she decides to play dirty by blackmailing her stepmother after seducing her stepfather. 

Damn, that's a lot. 

Maybe I should simplify. Brooke wanted me to try a Cinderella trope.

Cinderella: so she's this poor, orphan who goes and gets sent to boarding school (a bad one) and she scrapes by enough on scholarship to go to a University. She comes back home and isn't welcomed by her stepmother. She learns that her stepmother is selling her parent's house. The house she grew up in. It's her one link to the past and now it's going to be taken away. She begs her stepmother to give her the house, but her stepmother says no. She offers to pay for the house if she'll sell it to her. Where are you going to get that money? Don't worry about it. Fine, my inheritance. Oh, you don't have much left. I had to keep the house maintained and raise your stepsisters. Then use your own money. Who do you think you are talking to me like this in my own house? This is my home. You spent my money on it. I'm the adult here. I'm your parent. You've never been a parent to me. You didn't even show up to any one my graduations.