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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.)

May 30, 2014 at 8:33am

#818205

What I Learned from Netflix

I have been binge watching on Netflix.

Call that lazy or unproductive if you like, but I actually find myself watching subplots, story arcs, characterization and dialog with a critical eye. I'm very interested in what sucks me in, what sucks Keith in, and what sucks the kids in, and why. I'm interested in why I adore some shows while the boy hates them and vice versa.

We're caught up through the end of Season 3 on "The Walking Dead" - which we both love, but which is getting a bit forced, in my opinion, particularly things like who dies and who doesn't, who's on which side, and the coincidental reunions.

I tried to watch "How I Met Your Mother" and got through maybe 2.5 episodes. Then I remembered watching the show when it launched and never watching it again (I'd forgotten I did that), and now I remember why. The "no, the stripper wasn't your mother" type sidebars start to get annoying. Just get on with it and tell us who the freaking mom is. I have no interest in waiting nine seasons to find out. Good Lord, that story took almost a decade to tell. Somebody just tell me the punchline, okay?

I tried to watch "Doctor Who" and got through maybe as many episodes as "How I Met Your Mother" because the show is kind of stupid. It might be more appealing if I weren't quickly approaching forty.

We watched the first episode of "Breaking Bad" together. I think I could get into it, but he wasn't overly impressed. I found his reaction interesting, because it's clearly an action show, something that your quintessential "guy" would like, but I think the character is so unmanly that it just doesn't appeal to a typical guy the way "Wicked Tuna" or that crabbing show do. (Don't get me started on Pawn Stars, Storage Wars and American Pickers - no action at all, just a bunch of bartering for old crap that should be in the trash, and the appeal is wholly lost on me.)

Now I'm watching "Once Upon a Time" and think I love it. I didn't bother asking Keith to watch it with me, and when he came home and found me watching and asked for a brief synopsis, and he said, "It sounds like a chick show, fairy tales and stuff." Yep, pretty much, which is why I didn't invite him to join me.

As a team, I think we might try "Dexter" next. It comes highly recommended, and my premise description interested Keith. But I'm afraid it will be just like "Breaking Bad" - the protagonist is some kind of forensics analyst, I've been told, and that sounds too geeky for the boy. I suspect he won't like that character, or therefore, the show, any more than he liked Breaking Bad or Bones or CSI or any other seemingly-guy show that's too geeky to actually be a guy show.

*shrug* Keith doesn't like to read, either, so I guess I shouldn't over-analyze him anyway. He (and the millions of non-reading Call-of-Duty-playing bad-old-artifacts-and-manly-boating-show-watching middle-aged men in America) are not my target market.

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