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Brandiwyn🎶Sprinting

, 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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tj gives thanks for all things

50 minutes ago
In response to "Can I Copyright My Work If I Use AI?"

I say that if the information is there for public use, then it's not protected under copyright laws. My thoughts, not facts.

Dave Ryan

Nov 9, 2025 at 5:31am
In response to "Unreliable Narrators 2025: Foreshadowing"

A few years ago I read a novel - An Instance Of The Fingerpost

- which, on the surface, was a historical whodunnit told through the eyes of four unreliable narrators. It was in four sections, each written from the point of view of one of the narrators, and it was only when you got to the final section that you realised that, not only was the last narrator actually pretty damn reliable, but there had been something "other" going on the whole time and the murder that had appeared to be the central event was in fact a bit of a side-show.

I did not see it coming, and when I realised when it was all about, I was initially a bit annoyed by it. But, on reflection, it was very well done and didn't telegraph the ending it any way. So it can be done, but it'll take a lot of hard work to do it well, especially if you're making frequent POV switches.

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Soldier_Mike

Nov 8, 2025 at 10:16pm
In response to "Unreliable Narrators 2025: Foreshadowing"

I've never tried writing anything from more than two perspectives - and that only rarely. Your situation, though, reminds me of the 2008 political action thriller Vantage Point. Parts of the action are revealed from the vantage point of Forest Whitaker's character, who was videotaping the event with his hand-held camcorder. Interesting, to say the least.

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Storm Machine

Nov 2, 2025 at 6:37am
In response to "Dear Me 2018: Foreshadowing"

I recently revisited a Dear Me (2018) letter, and it made me glad I've come so far in my life. I'm really glad you have the proper diagnosis and that you're finding yourself doing the things that make you happy. Overachievers and scope creepers unite!

Robert Waltz

Oct 27, 2025 at 10:06pm
In response to "Why I Never Finish Anything"

Or maybe it's that there's no such thing as a happy ending; there are only stories that you stop telling too early.

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Storm Machine

Oct 27, 2025 at 9:35pm
In response to "Why I Never Finish Anything"

That's not why you never finish. It might always be bigger but you could choose to sculpt it smaller. But who I am to say anything? I, too, scope creep short stories into novel series.

Robert Waltz

Oct 24, 2025 at 1:09pm
In response to "Recital Time!"

Candy corn is the Devil's zits.

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tj gives thanks for all things

Oct 24, 2025 at 12:21pm
In response to "💩 Impropriety Warning: Poop Post"

Brandiwyn🎶Sprinting

it's a real pain in the pooper

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Brandiwyn🎶Sprinting

Oct 23, 2025 at 6:27pm
In response to "💩 Impropriety Warning: Poop Post"

tj gives thanks for all things - I'm sorry. That sounds so tedious.

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tj gives thanks for all things

Oct 23, 2025 at 5:37pm
In response to "💩 Impropriety Warning: Poop Post"

I used to be pretty consistent based on what kind of food I ate. Now, with chemo, it's all over the place; I never know when until it's time, which makes traveling any distance from a facility difficult. I just mentioned to my wife that we may need to take the porta-pot (cassette toilet we use during camping) out of storage and put it in the vehicle we are in.

November 19, 2025 at 8:35am

#1101942

Can I Copyright My Work If I Use AI?

"This second Part of the Copyright Office’s Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) addresses the copyrightability of outputs generated by AI systems. It analyzes the type and level of human contribution sufficient to bring these outputs within the scope of copyright protection in the United States." - United States Copyright Office*

*full document linked at the bottom

I've been using ChatGPT and Google Gemini during the creation of my November novel this year. Examples of my prompts just within the last 24 hours include:

- Can you please propose a gen z / alpha way to say flip or flip out
- How about a Gen z / alpha way to say, that was uncool of her
- how about "preach" or "you're preaching to the choir"
- Does this sentence make sense: It jives with your natural affinity for animals.
- Do Gen z / alpha still use text abbreviations like y instead of why and u instead of you

(is my Gen X showing yet??)

The last two don't worry me at all, because the bot is answering a question, not offering text that I might incorporate into my book. But what about the first three? Are they perfectly fine, toeing the line, or are they clean over it? For example, if I asked Gemini:

Can you recommend a gen z / alpha way to say "I really blew it"

And Gemini responds:Click to see full response ▼

Recommendation:
The most common and effective phrases that capture "I really blew it" are:
"I took a massive L." (Concise and definitive.)
"I just fumbled that so hard." (Implies responsibility and a critical mistake.)

Does it render my work uncopyrightable if I use the exact phrase "I just fumbled that so hard" in my finished work? What if I just used the word "fumbled"?

I wanted to know, so I looked it up at the US Copyright Office website. Full disclosure: I skimmed the document to find relevant passages, so it's possible I missed something. However, my takeaway was that questions like this would be handled by courts on a case-by-case basis, and overall, the court will likely side in favor of the author. I based my finding on this passage:

“To be sure,” the Court further explained, “the requisite level of creativity is extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice. The vast majority of works make the grade quite easily, as they possess some creative spark, ‘no matter how crude, humble or obvious’ it might be.”

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2 - Copyrightability Report

Literarily,
Michelle

MTMS, Music Lessons in Columbus, Ohio

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