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Brandiwyn🎶Prep starts 10/1!

, 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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Aiva Raine

Sep 16, 2025 at 5:57pm
In response to "I Asked ChatGPT to Rewrite the Bible in Gen Z"

ROLFMAO Cain: “Idk, not my problem.”

Brandiwyn🎶Prep starts 10/1!

Sep 16, 2025 at 2:51pm
In response to "I Asked ChatGPT to Rewrite the Bible in Gen Z"

Right? Kinda makes me want to see the whole musical rewritten in Gen Z. They did it with Hamilton LOL, why not Joseph??

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Jayne

Sep 16, 2025 at 1:34pm
In response to "I Asked ChatGPT to Rewrite the Bible in Gen Z"

GETS DRIP COAT

*dying*

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Amethyst Angel h✟k ♡

Sep 16, 2025 at 8:35am
In response to "I Asked ChatGPT to Rewrite the Bible in Gen Z"

Wow, that was actually pretty good! It goes to show how humanity has always been the same and God has His hand in everything... Or something

Thanks for sharing!

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Elycia Lee ☮

Sep 16, 2025 at 7:18am
In response to "I Asked ChatGPT to Rewrite the Bible in Gen Z"

Oh dear God.

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Robert Waltz

Jul 24, 2025 at 9:46am
In response to "Story idea and my thoughts on Heaven and Hell"

Elycia Lee ☮

- yeah, maybe it's our turn to bug her to run it through Prep this year

Elycia Lee ☮

Jul 24, 2025 at 9:20am
In response to "Story idea and my thoughts on Heaven and Hell"

Robert Waltz

I'll be more impressed if Michelle can walk, chew gum, and whistle without swallowing the gum all at the same time.

Even better if she can whistle to the tune of Mozart or something.

Hmmm... if I ever finish that story I was writing which was my first attempt to write a novel, I will definitely ask you what you think of it.

Michelle, if you ever write your story, I wanna read it.

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Robert Waltz

Jul 24, 2025 at 8:49am
In response to "Story idea and my thoughts on Heaven and Hell"

It's certainly a thing to write about things you don't believe in. For instance, I reject the idea of the supernatural, but it's interesting enough that I've written fiction featuring it. But the problems with writing about "perfect" places are well-documented; it's tough to introduce conflict into a utopia, but it has been done. The enduring popularity of Star Trek is one example.

To address your specific situation: maybe perfection includes incorporating apparent imperfections in order to make things interesting. Like how Lucifer's fall, and Adam and Eve's for that matter, were actually all part of the Plan. After all, if God could be surprised, He wouldn't be omniscient, would He? And if Heaven's perfect, then doesn't that mean that the residents' supposed free will has been taken away, and isn't that a contradiction?

One superpower we have as humans is to imagine the impossible.

I know I'm saying all this as an outsider, so take it as you will. And you know me well enough, I hope, to know that I'm not saying any of this to be hurtful or obnoxious.

Oh, and Elycia Lee ☮, it's possible to be both a scientist and a musician. Brandiwyn🎶Prep starts 10/1! can walk and chew gum at the same time.

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Elycia Lee ☮

Jul 24, 2025 at 5:47am
In response to "Story idea and my thoughts on Heaven and Hell"

You are a scientist? I thought you are a musician.

Writing a story that involves God, heaven, hell, and angels are to me one of the most difficult stories to write especially if you want to be factually right.

I tried and fell flat on my face. Good luck. I really do like the idea of angels getting promoted... your arguments are valid too...

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Brandiwyn🎶Prep starts 10/1!

Jul 24, 2025 at 5:20am
In response to "Story idea and my thoughts on Heaven and Hell"

Kåre เลียม Enga

- I welcome your different point of view once you had some sleep!

(deleted and reposted because I accidentally sent this privately initially probably because I need some sleep also haha@ my eyes don't work before 7:00 a.m.)

February 15, 2012 at 7:08am

#747121

So I'm a planner.

I've just plotted out the next fourteen years of my life, which, incidentally, takes me to age 50. That was not a specific target when I started planning, but it's convenient. It's also scaring the Unicorn Poop

out of me. 50? Really? That should be so far away, but seems closer when you tabulate it like this:

2013 (age 38): Open Store #2.
2016 (age 41): Open Store #3.
2019 (age 44): Open Store #4. Buy a bigger house on lots of acreage.
2022 (age 47): Open Store #5.
2025 (age 50): Retire, live off of owner salary and excess profits of stores 1-5, and start a new career as a professional author.

"First world tour as famous musical act" didn't make the list, in part because I don't want to be discovered drowned at age 48 in a hotel room bathtub the night of a high-profile pre-Grammys party. (Was that crude? Sorry - I just don't want to be that girl.) In fact, I don't even want to attend a high-profile pre-Grammys party. I'm too down-to-earth (read: lazy, couch-potato-ish) to be a celebrity. I don't spend enough family (video game) time as it is. After all the introspection, I've decided I want to be rich, but not famous. So I've crafted a plan that I hope will get me there.

Now that I have a solid fourteen-year plan, I know that I'm not going to seriously pursue a new career as an author until 2025, after I retire from my first lucrative business endeavors (hey, if Terry Brooks can do it, so can I.) That lifts a burden, because for now, writing can officially and without guilt take second place to the other priorities in my life. I'll keep casually pumping out shorts and snippets, and each November, converting one to a novel. Then, when I'm ready for my new career, I'll sort through my own personal slush pile and find the nuggets of gold that will launch my new career, upon which I will embark from the comfort of my plush library with big picture windows overlooking a rolling, wooded Ohio landscape (the acres of which belong to Yours Truly.)

I'll keep performing, because I love it, but I'll stick to venues that advance my music school business. I'll keep writing songs every now and then, but it's not my primary focus. I'll keep writing blog posts because it's good for business, and because it will help me continue to develop my writing skills. I hope to be quite an accomplished writer by 2025.

Yay. I'm tired of stressing myself out over a list of goals I can't quite meet. I want personal time, family time, and time to focus on my health. And video games.

Focus. It's all about focus.

Peace.

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