Rethink, Revise, Re-submit 7.15.16

Typed about 500 words last night, then hit the back button by accident, and lost all my work. Oh well - the point of the scene I was writing was to convey the stranglehold one character's wealthy but remote father had over her life. None of the things I was writing transmitted that idea. So I really needed to rewrite it. But it was galling to lose all that work, anyway. I really need to have a good idea, when I start, of how I'm going to have my characters behave, rather than having them carry out a bland conversation with no conflict. Does the wealthy father love his daughter, or not? What are his flaws? I have no idea, I realize, and this prevents me from writing in a way that will cause the reader to like or dislike him.