Brandiwyn🎶 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.
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.
As a contest owner, I've been grappling with this. I've tried to remain neutral and avoid rules around AI use in my activities, but fairness is ingrained in my bones. I fully support (and enthusiastically encourage!) AI for brainstorming and wording suggestions. But, in my opinion, once it rewrites what you wrote - tightens your prose, increases your pacing, and changes the voice of the author - even if it doesn't change the story itself, those paragraphs are no longer your original creation. The story is - that's the human element - but not the text.
I found an attorney's YouTube channel and a video where she addresses copyrighting in publishing of books where AI was used . In it, she says (2:10-ish) that copyright "protects human creativity, not generated text," and that if you use AI to "brainstorm, outline or organize your own human-created content, then you can copyright the human-created portions of your work."
I have no idea who this attorney is, and the video is 10 months old, so I tried to check US copyright law for myself: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/
Part 2 addresses copyrightability of AI-generated text. The summary of findings is on page 8 of the Part 2 report. Relevant bullet points:
Copyright protects the original expression in a work created by a human author, even if the work also includes AI-generated material.
Whether human contributions to AI-generated outputs are sufficient to constitute authorship must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
Human authors are entitled to copyright in their works of authorship that are perceptible in AI-generated outputs, as well as the creative selection, coordination, or arrangement of material in the outputs, or creative modifications of the outputs
The second point highlights that there's a definite gray area in the law. But the first and third, if I'm reading them correctly, support what the attorney said in the video, which also supports my opinion: The story itself - plot, characters, setting - belong to you and may be copyrighted, but the text that was output by AI may not.
In conclusion, that is where I'll draw the line for my competitive WDC events. My non-competitive events will remain neutral - use of AI, and to what extent, is entirely your choice.
Copyright protects the original expression in a work created by a human author, even if the work also includes AI-generated material.
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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
