This document provides steps to invent your own secret alphabet: 1. Write out the standard alphabet. 2. Decide on script details like capital letters and cursive/separate writing. The easiest approach substitutes each standard letter with a unique symbol. 3. Research other scripts for inspiration and simplify symbols until each is as easy to write as the letter it replaces. Assign a symbol to each standard letter. 4. Create a code chart matching letters to symbols and destroy it once memorized for secrecy. 5. Practice writing and translating words and sentences using the new alphabet code. 6. Learn to read what you've written in the new script without referring to the code. Regular practice is needed to fully

1. HOW TO INVENT YOUR OWN SECRET ALPHABET
Step I: Write out the alphabet of your language(s)
[If it doesn’t have one, write down the key sounds etc.]
Ex. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Step II: Decide things like: Do you want capital letters? Do you want your script
to have cursive writing, separate writing, or both? Do you mean to substitute a
letter for a letter, or a letter for a sound? … etc. [The easiest way is to ditch the
capitals, have only separate writing and replace the alphabet letter for letter.]
Step III: Look up scripts you don’t know: ex. Kana, Cuneiform, the Cyrillic
alphabet, etc. or things like mathematical symbols. Pick the ones you like and
write them out. Simplify and alter them until each sign is as easy to write as the
letter it is supplanting. These secret alphabets would basically have to be written
by hand, but if you want one you can use it on a computer, you can pick symbols
from Insert instead. For example: a=♫; b=●; c=►; d=Ω … etc.
Step IV: Write out a chart for your new alphabet, new letter = to old letter. Don’t
leave it lying around if you are serious about the secrecy, and once you know it by
heart, throw it away or set fire to it. Feel free to edit your alphabet chart at any
stage if you see something you want to improve or fix.
For example: a=♫; b=●; c=►; d=Ω; e=+; f=♦; g=∏; h=♣; i=∆; j=♠; k=ⱺ; l=♯; m=▲;
n=∞; o=∂; p=∑; q=Ͱ; r=ΐ; s=ϣ; t=‡; u=§; v=¶; w=¤; x=π; y=ψ; z=┴
Step V: Write things using your new alphabet. Start with simple word for word
and sentence for sentence ‘translation’ in your new alphabet, then write your own
sentences and texts, glancing at the code only when you get stuck.
For example: book = ●∂∂ⱺ; this is a book = ‡♣∆ϣ ∆ϣ ♫ ●∂∂ⱺ … and so on.
Step VI: Learn to read in your new script. Start reading what you have written, at
first with and then without recourse to the code, until you can read it as casually
and fluently as the standard script.
Keep practicing and journal in this alphabet if you can. By this time, you do know
it, but it is not yet part of you – not until you have been using it steadily for some
six months at least. I hope you have as much fun with this as I did. 