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    Blog,  Editing,  Freelancing,  Mentoring,  Writing

    10 Important Things You Need To Know About Finding A Mentor

    / January 14, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake talks about the ten most important things you need to know before finding or getting a mentor and how not to mess it up.

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    Blog,  Freelancing,  Journalism

    How to easily track pitches in Google Sheets as a freelance journalist

    / January 7, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake talks about how to set up a pitch tracker using Google Sheets to track pitches as a freelancer or freelance journalist.

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  • Blog,  Freelancing

    What you need to know about freelancing in Australia and COVID-19

    / December 31, 2020 / 0 Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake discusses the state of freelancing in Australia in the light of COVID-19.

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    Freelancing

    How I am planning for the next financial year as a freelancer – despite Covid-19

    / June 26, 2020 / 0 Comments

    This may seem strange to you. In a world that increasingly seems to offer little prospects for freelancers, why would I plan for 2020-2021? Or at least plan to continue freelancing? Reasons it’s…

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    Blog,  Freelancing,  Journalism

    Setting goals as a freelance journalist

    / October 11, 2019 / 0 Comments

    How do you set goals for your business as a freelance journalist? What sort of goals are best to set? What will move your business and career forward?

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  • Blog,  Editing,  Freelancing,  MEAA

    Your working rights as an editor

    / May 10, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake <h1>Your working rights as an editor</h1> <h2>A summary of my presentation at the 2019 IpEd Conference in Melbourne</h2> At the Institute of Professional Editors' Conferences there are often multiple streams of…

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  • Blog,  Books,  Editing,  Freelancing,  Journalism,  Writing

    11 things I am tracking in 2019 for my freelancing and why

    / February 12, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake discusses what she tracks as a freelancer so that she can be a better journalist and editor.

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  • Blog,  Freelancing

    How to deal with late payments as a freelancer

    / January 26, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake discusses what options freelancers, small business and independent contractors in Australia have when chasing late payments and unpaid invoices.

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  • Blog,  Editing,  Freelancing,  Journalism

    9 lessons I learned freelancing in 2018

    / January 22, 2019 / 0 Comments

    While you book your spot in the upcoming very cheap Writers Victoria webinar on freelancing that I am running ($20 tickets and 20% off before Feb!) and get excited about Rounded offering a…

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  • Blog,  Editing,  Freelancing,  News,  Writing

    The NYWF-ty List

    / October 11, 2018 / 0 Comments

    NYWF is National Young Writers Festival and this is the "NYWFty" ("nifty") list because it is truly nifty and is full of the resources the young writers were asking me and other people…

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