What is the story supposed to be about?

Actually, I'm very glad you asked that question, seeing as I have a lot of info to go over and I don't have a lot of time to explain in full detail, but here we go:

I first created the story about a bullied disabled girl who ran away to Hollywood and later became a famous singer/actress, but I realized that that story was unrealistic and lame. So I had to scrap that plan.

But then I thought to myself what if there was a case of mistaken identity? Suppose that the little girl disappeared and everyone in the city believed that the pop star was her, not knowing that the little girl was probably dead. I wrote a good part of the story with that premise, but then it quickly fell apart BEFORE the main story could begin.

This also left me feeling unfulfilled.

At the same time, I discovered that several unnecessary subplots began to clog up the story and many unnecessary characters were taking attention away from the main character, so I had no choice but to pull the plug on the story.

Guess this goes to show you what happens when you get an idea for a story and forget to plan it out.

So what I must do is figure out what goes in the story instead of deciding how I want the story to go. Also, I have to decide which character can go into the story and which character doesn't. Plus, the events of the story (and the year the story takes place, as I'm a sucker for real-time fiction) must affect the characters involved, and that event must change the main character as well.

With that in mind, I know that the story "Notorious: The Ballad of Candy Cane Brenner" will be profoundly different from when I first made it up in 2004. In that sense, I can finally begin the story.