#granted I've taken some Python courses which does help

[skylilywolf]

Visual novels my beloved <3

If you are looking to try out working on a vn I find Inklewriter to be a great tool for writing since I can easily go through all the choice options I made and see them all in one place.

I've not fiddled with Twine so I'm not sure how easy it is to learn, but Renpy does have a lot of tutorials scattered over the internet and the basics (choices, dialogue, transitions, characters & backgrounds) are nice and simple. It's quite customizable for when you start to get more comfortable and want to expand to more complex mechanics too.

I'd just recommend starting off simple and working your way up to your dream project :3 Once you get the basic structure of what you want it's easier to conceptualize more complicated features and start to implement them.

absolutely devastating that i actually have the art skills now to produce the dating sim/visual novel my teenage self dreamed of and the only thing standing in my way is being a very mid storyteller and even worse at coding