I have been writing a novel for a very long time. Or I should say conceptualizing it. I've mainly been writing it for the past year, but I've got notes on ideas for it going back more than a decade.
So what has been holding my back recently is names. For some reason I have been unable to keep people straight in my head using names. The protagonist's name has been elusive though I started out with a very strong idea of his name which I think I will now return to.
Has anyone ever had this problem? Where names don't seem to stick to characters even though you have a strong idea of their personality?