I'm loving blogging because I can sort of unload all the weird ideas I've had over the last few years. Here's one of those (screenshots below), and let's first understand that I was stoned making this, and let's second understand that I still sorta love it.
So I wanted to learn Excel. Jk, fuck Excel this was Google Sheets.
Really, I just had the idea to write something where you could read the lines in reverse and see how it felt. I didn't put much thought into the little story, and I don't really like it that much, but it was the structure that I was really focused on.
I tried to be so artsy about what box I highlighted with the cursor before I took each screenshot, thinking I would post this on Instagram and everybody would say "oh, Henry, that's so artsy, do you want to hang out with me more as a result of me learning how artsy you are", as one does. But I never posted it on Instagram because I knew in my heart that the execution didn't yet match the idea, but the blog can have my Instagram's table scraps I guess lol.
While I played in Excel (and you're welcome for color coding, by the way), I also tried layering the lines around in weird patterns (okay so not to brag but I did learn Excel a little bit, I used formulas that I've since forgotten, but major nerd alert on my part lol).
If I were to try this again, I would write in third-person perspective and have it be an 8-line murder mystery somehow, so when the lines change order, it changes the way clues are revealed to the reader? I probably won't do it again any time soon though. I'll be honest, as I write this blog, I'm remembering that by the end of making this the first time I stopped enjoying it, and that's how writing this blog post is going, so I'm just gonna bail here. Enjoy it or don't! I don't care! It's just for practice!
Byeeeeeee.
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