Brandiwyn🎶 v.2026, also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.
La Bene Vita
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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.
Wordsmitty ✍️ - Great question, and one I don't have the answer to, but I *think* (I'm not a lawyer), that falls into the domain of the second bullet point. I *think* some amount of a mix of AI generated text and human generated text is acceptable, to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
I frequently ask AI questions like, "What's another way to say XYZ" or "Please translate XYZ into Gen Alpha". I'm comfortable incorporating output in the form of words and phrases into my human-generated text. I don't see how it's any different from using a thesaurus or rhyming dictionary, for example. But I wouldn't think entire works can be AI-generated text. There's some mix amount that's acceptable, to be determined case-by-case, and I wouldn't know what that is, so I'll err on the side of words and phrases.
If anyone with legal expertise wants to chime in, though, I'm interested in a more qualified interpretation..
I've wondered about what the difference is between using human help, such as an editor, who may identify changes to the wording (words, pharses, sentences, etc.) that should be done to make the work better or clearer. If the writer uses those specific changes, does that fall into the same issue as AI providing the same changes that get used?
This is not meant to justify using AI, but to understand it all better.
Neil Peart, of Rush, was, and still is, widely acknowledged as one of the best, if not the best, drummer who ever lived.
It doesn't matter what one's opinion of Rush is as a band. The point is that other musicians recognized his mastery when he was alive. (Yes, I'm well aware of the joke that goes "What do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians? A drummer.")
In, I think, the 2010s, late in his life, the greatest drummer of all time took a break from performing to take drum lessons.
My takeaway from this is that there are certain pursuits, such as music, where the learning never stops. No matter how good you, or other people, think you are. Provided, of course, you're humble enough to know that there's always more to learn.
At the music school, the hot water heater died. I got a quote from a plumber to replace it. It's up in the loft above the bathrooms, accessible by ladder in the music lab, and I swear the building was built around the stupid thing. It's surrounded by duct work and rafters, or whatever you call the metal framing that holds up the roof in a retail strip mall. The space was a coffee shop before it was a soccer store before it was a music school, so it had a 50 gallon hot water tank, where we really only need 20. So getting the new one in wasn't a concern, but I did ask about getting the old one out. Quote guy says to me, this isn't our first rodeo.
Fast forward to installation today. It was supposed to take a couple hours. They started at 11:00, and at 12:30, they didn't look like they were super close to done, so I confirmed they would be done by 4:00 when the students were scheduled to arrive. They were clearing a clog in the old tank before they could remove it, but he thought it would be about an hour more. 4:00 was no problem at all, supposedly. So I left.
Reception contacts me at 3:00. They can't get the old tank out because of all the framing and duct work.
...You don't say.
At this point the clock is ticking, so they decide they're going to install the new one, but leave the old one up there, and we could worry about how to get it out later. I'm like, um, are you at all concerned that maybe the combined weight of the old tank plus the weight of the new tank plus water might exceed the weight of the old tank when it was full, which is what the support structure was designed for? (In case you're wondering, which I know you are, I asked during the quote if a permit was required, and rodeo guy said no. I said, even though we're changing the size?, he said nope and assured me that they were licensed and bonded and he knew what he was talking about.)
The teachers decided to move the lab out into the lobby temporarily since the plumbers were clearly not going to make the 4:00 deadline.
Amazingly, they managed to get the old tank out after all, so I don't have to have heartburn over the weight issue.
Then the day got more fun, because the plumbers were unable to test the new water heater. That's because, right around the time they were plumbing it in, a water main broke in our plaza and we lost water to the store completely. According to the landlord, it would be restored by (either 9pm or 6am? Receptionist wasn't totally clear on which.)
Which meant we also lost the bathrooms.
So reception starts contacting all the students to cancel lessons for the rest of the night (third time in as many weeks, thanks to Snowmaggeddon and Minimaggeddon) and she's about halfway through that when the water comes back on. After the plumbers are gone, of course.
So that was work today.
I don't have students on Tuesdays, so I worked on the business website (michelletuesday.com, if you're interested - it's still purple) more and wrote my two poems for PromptMaster:
For the prompt, "The most suspicious thing likely to make a librarian raise an eyebrow.": "Library Tryst"
For the prompt, "Write a poem using a very limited vocabulary that is at least 8 lines long.": "The Band Director's Resignation"
Y'all, Jayne truly is the PromptMaster. If you're not already participating, I highly recommend it.
Goals are below.
G'night,
Michelle
Goals for 2/10/26 - 2/16/26 Min 10 min/day on current novel Review work tasks list 3 days/week Two poems for "PromptMaster !" One short story for "The Bradbury" One themed blog post (music/writing) One review Current assignment for "26 Paychecks " Current assignment for "The Sprawling Ink Society"
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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
