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E-lit Final Project: When Love Becomes a Click

I want my e-lit project to explore what happens to love when it exists mostly through screens. Not just the social media version, but the kind filled with missed calls, delayed responses, and the quiet anxiety of time zones that never quite line up. My idea centers around building an interactive fiction about a long-distance couple trying to survive the distance while still learning how to love each other in a digital world.

At the beginning of the experience, the reader would choose the characters’ love languages: words of affirmation, acts of service, quality time, physical touch, or gift-giving. These choices don’t just act as personality traits, they shape how the story unfolds. A character who values quality time might struggle more with distance than one who values words of affirmation. The story would unfold through text messages, voice memos, short poems, and shared music links. The reader wouldn’t just read the relationship; they’d participate in maintaining it.

Each chapter would present the reader with choices: Do you send a poem or a playlist? Do you wait to respond or call immediately? Do you confront immigration issues directly, or avoid them out of fear? These decisions lead the couple down different paths. Some endings might show diaspora love surviving systems designed to break it. Others might show how distance, lack of intimacy, or family pressure slowly tears them apart.

Visually and structurally, I imagine the project looking like a chat interface or message thread, where timestamps, loading dots, and unsent messages become part of the narrative something like “Hana Feels” or “Writers are not Strangers.” There would be moments of silence built into the story, blank spaces where users have to sit with the absence, simulating what long-distance actually feels like. Music and poetry would function as emotional artifacts, love letters in digital form, showing how intimacy adapts when touch isn’t possible.

This project matters to me as a person that had had to navigate a failed long-distance love, it isn’t just about romance. It’s also about borders, migration, cultural expectation, and emotional survival. By making it interactive, I want readers to feel the weight of choice,  to understand that love online is not passive consumption, but active, fragile construction. Every decision becomes political. Every message becomes evidence of care or neglect. In the end, some relationships will survive. Others won’t. But either way, the reader walks away understanding that love, like electronic literature, is shaped by systems, interfaces, and the emotional code we choose to write within them.

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Final Project Early Ideas

I’ve been deadset on doing a visual novel and finally found a software that makes that goal easy without the frustration of learning code. The reader will be able to click through the story and make choices. Here’s the first page:

I wanted to do a little horror story about an unethical workplace. It’ll be a satire of how Human Resources do nothing to actually protect employees and how large companies profit off of exploitation. I’m stunted when it comes to ideas right now, but I know I’ll be taking a lot of inspiration from analog horror videos.

-SS

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The Plot Of My Project

Unfortunately, I had a packed weekend, which resulted in me getting sick. I opened the coffee shop two days in a row and went to a concert in between those two shifts, which resulted in not a lot of sleep and a lot of exposure to people.

Luckily, my project for class is already well under-way. I had the idea of creating a Minecraft Poetry Nature Walk, in which as you walk through different biomes you read Haikus about them.

I’ve already begun writing some of the poems and picking a seed (a randomly generated world that fits the aesthetic purposes of my project.) All I have left to do is design my pathway and surrounding architecture, should I choose to include it.

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Thoughts on the Final E-lit project

While I do not have a full idea of how I am going to pull off this project, I do have some initial thoughts as to what type of story I want to tell. For this project I want to make a story that plays with the relationship between reader and writer.  More specifically, I want to play with the idea of “ownership” of a story’s meaning between the reader and the writer. The project, “writers are not stranger” really inspired me to think about this project. Although I may have not loved its execution, I did like the ideas it had. With this idea, I want to probably use hypertext. Since I do not have a lot of technical prowess with working with programs online, I feel like being simple would work more for me in the long run. Just spit balling, I can see my work being a collection of stories or vignettes that seem very deep or abstract but are really simple in nature. I want to readers disagree with the writers is trying to work with (If that makes sense). Again, I like the idea of the author playing with the reader through their work. Going with the idea of hypertext, I also want to think about using images and even music/ sound for this project. I would need to flesh out my idea a bit more to know for sure want I want to do with the inclusion of visual and audio media. I am not that creative, so I am concerned for this project, but I am excited about the challenge of it all.

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A World riting 2025-11-24 13:47:43

I want to create a short video with a story behind it. I’m not exactly sure what kind of story I want to present yet, but it should have some kind of meaning, and perhaps a short video that reflects the meaning. Nevertheless, I could write a story with a life-skilled lesson for the audience, using visual aids to relay the message, while keeping it clear and engaging to capture viewers’ attention. I might also consider adding a song that enhances both the narrative and the visuals.  I am still figuring out the process, but whatever I choose, I know my electronic literature will communicate a powerful message that will be remembered in electronic literature.

By: Lareice Weeks-Bigelow

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E-Literature Final Project

It’s hard to believe we’re already approaching the end of another semester. As I reflect on my E-lit final project one thing becomes clear: memory isn’t linear. It jumps, fragments, and lingers in unexpected ways. That’s the kind of story I want to tell. This semester has shown me that digital literature can capture that messy, layered experience something print alone can’t fully achieve.

My project is inspired by Retratos Vivos de Mamá, a piece that moved me deeply with its mix of archival materials and the intimate way it explores mourning. I imagine creating a digital “darkroom” filled with memories connected to my sister’s car accident, my family, and the ways grief and healing have shaped us. Instead of a traditional narrative, users would explore floating images, letters, voice notes, and short written reflections. Each artifact would develop as the reader interacts with it slowly coming into focus.

I want this project to be something you don’t just read, but enter moving through it with curiosity, softness, and maybe even a little discomfort. The interactivity won’t be about solving puzzles but about navigating a space that gradually reveals itself, like wandering through memory or choosing which emotional piece you’re ready to engage with. I’m excited to workshop this idea in our next class, and see how it can grow into a digital story that makes memory, emotion, and interaction feel alive.

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Final Project

Hey Everyone.

Here’s a picture of my final project.

I made this in Google Sheet. I was inspired by All of Your Time Tossed Selves and how the author took Google Forms and made a poetic narrative out of it.

The reader will navigate the piece by clicking on the boxes within the ice berg. Each box will link to another sheet on the same workbook and will contain some sort of poem. You will be able to go back to the iceberg once you are done reading the poem.

You can click on the boxes in any order. They will tell a story, but not a linear one. It’s basically about a person who commits suicide and their life experiences are the ice berg. The things above the water are what suicidal people show to society and the things underneath the water are what they don’t show people. Note how just like real icebergs, there is more under the water than above.

This is meaningful to me because my best friend commited sucide about 5 years ago and it has deeply affected me ever since.

I am excited to use a boring and professional medium like Google Sheets to make something fun. Spreadsheets are seen as corporate and uninspiring, so just like All Your Time Tossed Selves, I get to rewrite the narrative on how you can use something like Google Sheets to tell a story in a non traditional way.