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Can anyone give me any help on making a script, or give me links to sites that might help?

Making a script is even simpler than making a conlang, although to make a really good script, it takes a lot of time and tinkering. It helps to have already decided on a specific set of sounds for your conlang, so you know how many symbols/letters/characters you will need.

The easy way? Scribble down random lines, and assign each one to a sound from your language. This will give you a simple phonetic alphabet, good for pretty much any kind of conlang.


The hard way? Study the writing systems of real languages and other conlangs. Look for patterns (or lack thereof) correlating shapes or designs to different sounds, such as how Japanese kana have marks for voiced and labial syllables, but English doesn't have any sort of marks at all. Some languages, conlangs especially, may have very obvious trends like "straight lines and angles for consonants, curves and round shapes for vowels and diphthongs." Others may be more subtle or have no patterns at all.


If you want your script to look more authentic, more like a real writing system, take the time to do it the hard way and spend time refining each symbol, or even changing the system to something new like a syllabary or an abugida (wikipedia, your friend). Keep in mind, though, that changing a writing system too drastically may mean your words are no longer compatible (as in, writing words originally made for an alphabet but now in a syllabary... would get messy like trying to write English words in Japanese symbols).


If you just want something to scribble with... You simply can't go wrong with the easy way.