Brandiwynš¶ v.2026, also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.
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New Year, New Strategy For 2026, I launched a weekly topic rotation designed to help me stay d i s c i p l i n e d while ensuring that you, the reader, always know what to expect. Unfortunately, I have yet to acquire a million followers and gain official WDC "influencer" status, and I often find myself seduced by whimsy. Thus, my blogging strategy continues to evolve.
So, What Can I Expect?
I'm glad you asked. For now, until whimsy strikes again, here's what you can expect:
Subject Sundays
I'll publish an educational and/or discussion-provoking article, probably on one of the following subjects:. Music & music education The art and business of writing Owning & managing a small business Science & technology
Main Character Mondays
I'll establish goals every Monday and touch base about family, work, health and leisure.
Tuesdays through Fridays
I'll work on and update weekly goals. When I check off completed writing goals, I'll share the fruits of those labors, if applicable. These posts are likely to include blurbs about my day and the occasional rant, although I try to post rants at "What the Fork?"
* I can only commit to one review per week. If you would like your short story to be in my reviewing queue, please send me a WDC review request. Checkout my public reviews toget a sense of what to expect.
Scatterbrained, as usual. Juggling the 28 entries for "Invalid Item" always throws off my brain; I find it hard to switch between fiction and nonfiction writing I'll manage: I always do
Lookie what I found on my laptop when I came downstairs this morning! Evidence that I did in fact establish these goals at 2:43 PM on Feburary 2, 2026 before tearing out the door and speeding off to work, in case the goal police are after me.
One possibly issue among asking AI to quantify your verbs for flavor is that it is also trained on the internet, which is the worst of all possible bullies. Whimsy isn't necessarily a good thing to it. AI can be introduced to brain rot by reading twitter but they haven't figured out how to fix it afterward.
For today's episode of "Self Sundays," I started with a goals check-in.
Quick Goals Check: One new novel chapter (or rewrite) per day. Incomplete.* One short story for "The Bradbury" " Incomplete.** Two poems for "PromptMaster !" Submitted. One review. Canceled this week, but tomorrow it'll be an empty box again. Complete my "26 Paychecks " Week 3 assignment. Pending.*** Do something with "The Sprawling Ink Society" Done. See also: "Happy February! Feb. 1 Ink Sprawlers Challenge" Organize/prioritize work tasks. It's complicated.**** Run payroll. Done.
*Noveling No new words, but I did think about it - the story, the characters, the background - while brainstorming ideas for "PromptMaster !" and "The Bradbury" . I also revisited the global story arc (The Druid Archives) and started rereading background stories for my introduction in "The Sprawling Ink Society" .
**The Bradbury
We're closing in on the end of the week. I refuse to fall behind, so I may end up submitting a "See Spot Run"-flavored short that contains all the story elements (protagonist, goal, conflict, antagonist, climax, resolution) just so I get the practice in. Kind of like gymnastics conditioning but without the backflips.
***26 Paychecks
I like to stay ahead, but for this assignment, I'm tempted to linger back and make sure nobody's port gets neglected. The good news is, I just shined up my own port, so the feedback on my recent renovations will be nice.
****Work Priorities
No matter what other things crop up at work, priority #1 is always payroll if it's the 1st of the month, and I completed that on time. After that, the priority order is something I need to pin down, hence the checklist item. BUT two things jumped all the way up to positions 2 (we're being audited by the BWC) and 3 (I finally migrated my new website design, but all the individual pages still need a lot of cleanup), rendering the priority of everything else... well... low priority.
See you tomorrow for Music Mondays, and hopefully to report a completed short story.
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, also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.
and gain official WDC "influencer" status, and I often find myself seduced by whimsy. Thus, my blogging strategy continues to evolve.
Music & music education
