[Teresa Edgerton]

I don't know about ambitious -- in my case it was more a combination of desperation and curiosity. After all these years of naming people and places the well was beginning to run dry on that one, and I thought that perhaps starting the process at the language level might provide some new inspirations. Also, it was one aspect of world building I had never tried -- or, up until that point, even thought of trying -- so that was what motivated the curiosity part.

And it did open up some new inspirations, in all aspects of world building really, not just the naming part. If I had only confined my efforts to developing a vocabulary it would have been a purely rewarding experience, because I enjoyed that part in spite of minor difficulties and hitches, but once I got into the whole grammar question, the REAL difficulty began.

It's possible that being somewhat dyslexic made it all much worse.