this is the man I voted for!

The President has made a few revision notes on a speech.

Obviously, I love this. But I have two words for the President's speech writers: double spacing. Seriously. Make all your lives easier.

Though mostly I feel like I haven't got enough time for either one.

The plus side of working on two things at once--when one thing isn't going well, you can switch to the other one and feel like you've been productive. In addition, the other thing will seem easier by comparison.

I'm working on a short story as I finish the last manuscript tweaks, and the damn thing is really hard to write, to start with, as well as morphing on me from a story about obsession into a sort of quiet little love story. With sea monsters. Told primarily in epistolary style, though not completely so.

Seriously, creative undermind, wtf?

The plus side of short stories is that they're short. While it's hard to figure out, I am moving right along through my list of scenes. So there's that.