#THE MOST PERFECTEST BIRTHDAY QUESTION IN THE WORLD!!!!! A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT RIDDLISH!!!!!

[gumjester]

do you have any tips on writing riddlish ? I love the way you do it but I'm struggling so hard whenever I want to write it (⁠´⁠°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥⁠ω⁠°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥⁠｀⁠)

oh!!!!!!!! what a wonderful wonderful question!!!! i adore writing riddlish and thank you so much for your kind words about my interpretation of it, first and Foremost!!!

there are lots of ways to go about writing riddlish. i favour the "traditional" way if you will, of rhyming couplets, but i know others who have written riddlish with no rhyme scheme at all! however, i always found that the structure of rhyming couplets gives a good guideline to the sentence.

there is actually an official book on how to write riddlish that i have a physical copy of (though i dont have it with me at the moment :{ and i am struggling to find a digital version of it). if i recall correctly, the explanation of riddlish translation given in the book is that you take any regular degular sentence - say, "today i will go for a walk" - and just replace each of the words with either a synonym or approximation of the nature of the word. "Today" might become "present sunlight" or "now-ish hours" (there's a bonus tip! adding a suffix like -ish, -ness or -ful to a word always makes it read more carrollian, i find). "Go" might become "pass" or "make a way". "Walk" might become "path" or "two-legged advance". You can deconstruct the word as much or as little as you like and get super abstract if you would like the riddlish to be more indecipherable!!

fitting the sentence into the right rhyme and rhythm of a couplet can take some smooshing of the grammar and word choice, but i think thats a defining factor of riddlish! it gives it its whimsy! do not be afraid of it.

so for example, a fairly straightforward riddlish translation of "today i will go for a walk" might go something like "in now-ish hours there makes a chance / for passes and paths, a two-legged advance".

thats a fairly logistical breakdown, but my two most earnest pieces of advice for writing riddlish would be to keep your thesaurus close at hand, and be silly with it!!!! riddlish is a language based on nonsense and smushing words together. it doesnt have to sound a certain way. good luck to you !!!

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