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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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Soldier_Mike

about an hour ago
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.

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.

Brandiwyn🎶Sprinting

Oct 23, 2025 at 7:23am
In response to "Polarismageddon, Day 14-16"

Holy crap, I forgot I had a receptacle installed in the storage loft! That's useful to know. 😂😂😂 I never have enough light up there!

Brandiwyn🎶Sprinting

Oct 23, 2025 at 6:20am
In response to "💩 Impropriety Warning: Poop Post"

I imagine all the traveling you do may wreak havoc on your system. Diet consistency is helpful for bowel consistency. So they say. I wouldn't know.

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November 8, 2025 at 9:06pm

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Unreliable Narrators 2025: Foreshadowing

Mostly, I just wanted this title as a callback to my previous blog post, but I guess it could foreshadow the plot of my current novel project. If you're worried about spoilers, you could plug your ears and shout, "La, la, laaaaaaaa!" while you read this post. But the truth is, I don't even know what all is going to happen in this novel (see my Notebook for all the havoc my characters are causing), so I can't possibly be revealing too much, here. If I do, I'll be as surprised as you, not to mention, after having the ending ruined for myself, I might quit the project altogether out of sheer boredom.

I do wish there were a more efficient, less tedious way to pluck these ideas out of my head and get them in print. Sprinting via the "Sprint Writers Competition"

helps, but it also caused all of my unruly characters, and, inexplicably (j/k, it's entirely explicable: I'm typing faster than my brain can think), seems to reduce my vocabulary back to a toddler lever. Okay, maybe Kindergarten. I may have written [find a better phrase] or [OMG THIS SUCKS WHY AM I WRITING SO MUCH EXPOSITION] more than actual narrative and dialog.

But from a technical, structural perspective, I'm playing with unreliable narrators this year. It's definitely an experiment, because I have six - (points of view? perspectives? I've thought I had those straight for decades, but even Google can't agree with itself anymore, so now I'm questioning everything I ever thought I knew) - six characters whose heads my narrator is in (recounting in 3rd person) during various scenes throughout the story. And they're all unreliable. It's like Gone Girl on steroids: You never know whose truth is the unequivocal, impartial truth.

It's slowing down my word count, but it's fun crafting scenes such that I switch to another character's viewpoint just before possibly revealing something definitive to the reader. Must... leave... them... hanging!!!

Have you ever tried something like this? Do you think it's possible to pull off that many unreliable narrators?

I guess I'm not giving anything away, after all.

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