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How much I made in 2021 as a freelancer
How much I made in 2021 as a freelancer in Australia and why it is important to be transparent about it.
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My goals for 2022: making my freelancing work better for me
Marisa Wikramanayake talks through what her goals for 2022 are and how she is planning to achieve them.
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How to successfully set goals and plan for 2022
Marisa Wikramanayake writes about how to plan for 2022 and set goals as a freelancer.
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My 2021 year in review – amazing goals success or failure?
The 2021 year in review - were all the goals met and hit and what of COVID-19? Marisa Wikramanayake looks back at her work over the year.
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Why I really need to take a week off for rest right now
I talk about why it is important to create a productivity system for a freelance businesses that includes time for leave and rest.
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December 2020: What’s new & what I have been upto
Well first of all I had had plans for November 2020. I had planned to sit and relax and write more of the book – about 30,000 words extra to be exact. That worked for about a week. I am also involved in various projects in a voluntary capacity where I try to provide some assistance somehow. One of these ended up having a lot of drama and that caused a lot of stress. So I didn’t get to actually have much stress free time to write or do much else. So what else happened in November? I was in a Melbourne Fringe show. Yes you read that right. I…
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How you can help regional papers from closing even if you live in the city.
If you have been paying attention, you would have heard about the recent closing down of many regional newspapers and outlets across Australia. You might wonder what that has got to do with you. You might be wondering why you should care. It affects you immensely. Do you rely on the ABC for your news? A lot of what the ABC can cover in the regions depends on smaller local and rural newspapers existing there to help cover the same stories in print. ABC journos often have a large area to cover in the regions – they can’t do it alone. Do you rely on your local council for anything?…
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Despite COVID-19 I am still here
Back when I first started this blog, it was moved over from a personal one I had elsewhere pre the days of Google. The CMS that that blog was hosted on allowed for a lot more embedded interaction. You could easily find other bloggers and chat to them. You didn’t need to keep a schedule but someone would probably check in on you if you were quiet for too long. I never quite got into the next phase of things: where blogs were suddenly something you had to do and that you had to do on a schedule. I tried but it wasn’t what I had become used to –…
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Events coming up in March 2019
Marisa Wikramanayake lists the journalism events coming up in Australia in March 2019.
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How do you tell a story?
Where does one begin? If you didn’t know by now, I am speaking at an event on Monday night in Melbourne. I and four other journalists have five minutes each to tell a story about our journalism careers. And I am a bit stuck. I am assuming that I am stuck because of a few things: When I do think of funny anecdotes, they are not long enough to drag out for five minutes. At least I don’t think so at this point.. Second, they seem commonplace enough things to happen to most journalists and since the audience will be made of people in the industry that seems an odd…
