@sophia python's adorable though! i'm an old crone so it reminds me a lot of doing BASIC when i was wee in the early 80s.
i can point you at tutorials/books if that helps! because i totally know how frustrating it can be.
constraints can be amazing creative tools, but only when they're not completely hampering forward motion.
@pixelpaperyarn @sophia Python is pretty easy to handle.
Twee2 (https://github.com/Dan-Q/twee2) helps me a ton when I'm doing unconventional Twine stuff.
Another thing that helps a ton is to have firebug/dev console open and inspect whatever I want to do.
I'm doing a big project in Twine right now and I might port it to plain javascript once I'm done prototyping because everything I need to do feels hellish in Twine.
Which story format are you using? Maybe I can help.