I get really frustrated, naming stuff. I am not good at it. If a book title occurs to me easily, for example, I'm really, really lucky. Nemesis was like that. However, if it doesn't, I'm totally screwed. I will have a heck of a time coming up with something good. Dark Vision (a title i am still not entirely satisfied with) was like that.

The same holds true for naming things in books. For example, the dropship/gunship I've added to Nemesis. I cannot come up with a name to save my freaking life. Everything else is based in mythology - the Titans are the fighters, the capital ships mostly have names stemming from mythology, partly because it makes it easier to come up with names, and partly because I fell in love with calling the fighters Titans - it seemed fitting, the sort of thing that comes across as just arrogant enough, you know? The whole point of naming a ship meant for killing other ships something like that is to inspire fear, right?

The dropship has a different purpose: troop and/or equipment deployment, combat search and rescue, etc - think the helicopters of Vietnam. I remember in We Were Soldiers, they equated the helicopters with the horses the cavalry used to ride into battle. But that doesn't feel quite right, either.

I cannot come up with a name. *sigh* Right now, I'm using a placeholder, because not having a name was holding up the actual writing.

Any suggestions?