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Donna K. Fitch

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Born in Huntsville, Alabama, the "Rocket City," Donna K. Fitch grew up hearing the sound of rocket testing at Redstone Arsenal and graduated from a high school named for Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, the astronaut who died in Apollo 1. She also heard tales of the ghost of Sally Carter and the "old Grizzard Mansion" near her home, said to be haunted. This background, when mixed with an early diet of Dr. Seuss, the reference section of the Oak Park Public Library, 1930s mystery stories and the Gothic novels of Victoria Holt, set her to writing her own stories at age 13. Later literary influences spilled into Donna's writing--Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft and Tim Powers--to give it more than a tinge of paranormal and the macabre. ...more

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Computer screen with envelopes flying everywhere in chaos.

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Herman Melville. Probably. If he had a Gmail account.

“Inbox Zero” is a new term to me. I learned it on Monday of this week, the same day I realized my Gmail inbox was Out. Of. Control. I know an empty inbox isn't as rare as Captain Ahab's very large and pale object of passion, but it is for me.

I've always kept emails,

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“I knew damn well she wasn't a seer. I'd checked her wallet after bumping into her accidentally in the lobby.”
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“The program operates on facts, and extrapolates from those facts using a complex series of stochastic functions.”
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
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“Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side.”
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“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”
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