Of all people to lose my no-visitor message virginity to...
Anyway, you're right, it's pretty much always history that gets me, too. I usually finish appearance, personality, and all that stuff within a few days, but history? I'll be lucky to finish it in the next week.
But yeah, Blitz is probably going to be my fail safe mechanism in case I can't think up a better character. I don't seem to be RP'ing much on SPPf anymore, so I just thought I'd think up a few characters and rotate between them.