Names

The first struggle I come up to as I start a book is names. What's my character's gender? Where do they come from? What time period do they live in? Should they have mystical names, or modern-day names? And I'm very picky about my main characters names. I want to put creativity in their names, some meaning behind the choosing. It shouldn't be too stiff, or too random, or too feminine (if it's a boy, that is).

I type this out as I flip through Latin names at babynamesworld.com - that's where I get most of my name ideas. *Sigh*. Maybe I'll just give him a weird name like Cassius (no offense to any Cassius's out there) and nick name him Spud. Spud's a good name. And I'm totally joking; I wouldn't do that to him.

Not knowing my characters personality really makes name-finding very difficult. I guess I'll just continue on with 'V', as I call him now, until I get to know him better.

This kind of thing makes me dread having a baby. :P