The Debutante Ball

Seven debut authors. Seven books. One big dance toward publication.

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Tag: technology

  • Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2018Wednesday, May 23, 2018
  • by Kimmery Martin

Writing Technologies: 4 Websites I Love, 1 Website I Tolerate, and 1 Website I Want To Murder

Well, it’s official. I have become old. Settle down, young’un, and listen to me bitch about this newfangled writer technology.…

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  • Posted on Monday, May 21, 2018Saturday, May 19, 2018
  • by Cass Morris

How Tech Controls My Chaos

In life, I’m inseparable from my cell phone, but when it comes to writing, there is one program I can…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2017Wednesday, March 1, 2017
  • by Lynn K Hall

Social Media for the Memoirists (Or… “Aren’t I naked enough already?”)

This week we’re writing about technology, and wow, Crystal nailed just about every tech tool that can help you keep…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2017Monday, April 17, 2017
  • by Amy Poeppel

Authoring in the Modern Age (Or … How the fu*k did books get written before?)

Authoring in the Modern Age I often imagine writers in the pre-internet, pre-social media, even pre-electricity age, and I am…

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  • Posted on Monday, February 27, 2017Saturday, February 25, 2017
  • by Crystal King

Writing Historical Fiction – My Process

This week the Debs are writing about technology. What do we use to help our writing, what couldn’t we live…

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  • Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2016Tuesday, February 16, 2016
  • by Abby Fabiaschi

If I go to jail, blame my search history …

Every time a criminal investigation uses computer searches as evidence I cringe. When I’m writing, Google is always with me,…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016Wednesday, February 17, 2016
  • by Heather Young

In Defense of the Luddites

I’m not the youngest girl in the room, but in most things I like to think I’m younger than my…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2016Friday, February 12, 2016
  • by Jennifer S. Brown

Technology for Non Tech Writers

Pinterest board for MODERN GIRLS

Given how wired I am now, I find it difficult to remember those days when the most technological advancement I…

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  • Posted on Monday, February 15, 2016Sunday, February 14, 2016
  • by Louise Miller

Scrivener Love

When I read that our theme this week was technology, I was fairly certain that my post was going to…

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  • Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2014Thursday, September 11, 2014
  • by Sona Charaipotra

5 Things Sona NEEDS to Write

NOTE: Don’t want to be a Deb downer, but just want to acknowledge the date, and that it’s a hard…

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