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Battywyn🎶Prep!

, also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.

La Bene Vita

I am a professional musician

, worship leader

, small business owner

, songwriter

, aspiring author

and freelance nonfiction writer

with a chemical engineering degree

.

But that's just my resume.

My profile of qualifications is only one of the ways in which I am unique. Here I chronicle my personal and professional goals and my efforts to achieve them. Occasionally I fail. Mostly, I take daily baby steps toward all my long-term goals. Much like the stories I pen, the songs I compose, and the businesses I run, I am always a work in progress.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Token-Jester

about 6 hours ago
In response to "On my growth as a writer on WDC"

I regret not joining the October Nano Prep in its earlier years! You’re brilliant for creating it, maybe you could make a list of the people who contributed to it to make it the way it is today. I am grateful to you and to them!

JACE

about 15 hours ago
In response to "On my growth as a writer on WDC"

Knowing that my wife will never read this (she dislikes me correcting someone, uh ... her), I feel safe in posting my counter-argument: Even the half stars are countable. Thus, fewer still applies. Less than is used for UNcountable items, such as less water, etc.

Apart from that, I completely agree with your opening paragraphs--I, too, have learned so much about my meager efforts to write from the members and the site over my past 17 years here. It is so hard for me to be on vacation and miss my daily interaction with WDC.

Great post!!

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Amethyst SkellyBones Angel

Oct 9, 2025 at 11:54am
In response to "Antagonists!"

Jack o' Lantern

Check this out, pal

Thanks for sharing, Brandi

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Oct 8, 2025 at 10:50am
In response to "Let's Talk About Theme"

It's been years since I've read "Cry, the Beloved Country" but the themes of forgiveness and reconciliation are important. It was written circa 1948.

When apartheid ended and Mandela was released, reconciliation was the theme IRL.

Tragedy can bring people together.

Forgiveness and reconciliation can help one cope.

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spirit dog prowling 4premium+

Oct 6, 2025 at 7:01pm
In response to "Kill your darlings: How to begin a story"

NaNo taught me to write no mTTER WHAT APPEARED BECAUSE LATER THE EDITOR WULL FIX THE STORY SO IT IS READABLE AND ENJOYABLE. WRITING IS AN ADVENTURE AND A JOURNEY TO BE ENJOYED, GO FOR IT!

Storm Machine

Oct 6, 2025 at 6:56am
In response to "Kill your darlings: How to begin a story"

"You can't edit a blank page." That's what keeps me writing until I find the words that are awesome.

2 Like

Storm Machine

Oct 5, 2025 at 1:04pm
In response to "Groundbreaking Novel Plots and Themes"

World War Z- didn't so much have a plot as telling like how a disease unfolds. Should probably ready again post pandemic.

House of Leaves - how do you leave it a book that knows it's a book about a house that knows it's a house?

Battywyn🎶Prep!

Oct 4, 2025 at 5:28pm
In response to "Groundbreaking Novel Plots and Themes"

Feel free to add your own examples!

Storm Machine

Oct 4, 2025 at 5:11pm
In response to "Groundbreaking Novel Plots and Themes"

Interesting. I would have wondered if a couple others should have made the list.

Seconded, @cathartes02.

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Waltz in the Lonesome October

Oct 4, 2025 at 8:03am
In response to "Groundbreaking Novel Plots and Themes"

Makes me wonder how many attempts at creating new genres, or revitalizing old ones, or spinning new narrative structures, will never make the list because they were too different. Or for other reasons.

Often, experiments fail.

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October 6, 2025 at 6:52am

#1098743

Kill your darlings: How to begin a story

Whether you're a pantser or plotter, starting a story can be the hardest part of writing fiction.

Just kidding. It's totally editing, am I right??

Okay, so maybe both are stressful and intimidating. You wrack your brain for the perfect opening lines, but they just won't come, because you're a perfectionist! And if and when you finally spit out some words that work, you never, ever want to edit them out because you worked so hard to find them in the first place.

You're trying too hard.

Just start writing, yo. But here's the catch: Write with the knowledge and understanding that you will absolutely be deleting these words later. Write the worst possible opening lines you could ever devise. The words themselves and what they say aren't the point. The words are a vehicle for the writing itself. They get your brain moving. They're a warm-up. Eventually, the story will start spilling out, and you can go back and find the point where the magic happened - where your brain finally remembered why you liked writing in the first place.

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