EMBIGGEN your wordcraft

A Redditor was asking whether it was all right to invent words. I replied…

If you've built up the style of writing where people expect that from you, then of course you can do that! The issue isn't so much that English has an Academy with rules (for good or ill, it does NOT), but that your skill with it determines whether readers come along with you for the thrill ride-- or bail out.