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Marisa Wikramanayake

writer, journalist & editor ~ I help you tell stories.

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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 /

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

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    January 24, 2019
    Latest piece of research for the foundation fellowship: the book titled Police in Sri Lanka by Frank de Silva

    Foundation Fellowship update: a bit about Gin and Tonic

    January 12, 2018
    My desk in Phillips cabin at the KSP Writers Centre (c) Marisa Wikramanayake

    Day 3: So many emotions Day 3 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 31, 2018
  • Blog,  Events,  Journalism,  Writing

    How do you tell a story?

    February 9, 2019 /

    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…

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    Day 4: Freedom to write, freedom for writers Day 4 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    June 1, 2018
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    Sri Lanka, December 2015 – February 2016

    December 5, 2015

    Where you will find me in October 2018

    October 11, 2018
  • Blog,  Books,  Writing

    Gin & Tonic update #2: I was so wrong! AKA #maricantmath

    February 7, 2019 /

    We interrupt this regular broadcast to tell you two things: 1. We are late. Apologies. I am still trying to get myself back into a routine and things keep happening to send me right out of it. More on that in a couple of weeks. 2. OMG I WAS SO WRONG! Let me explain. I intend to update you on what is happening with G & T and if you go to my Patreon and subscribe for $1 per month you can read G & T from start to wherever I am at by the time you catch up to it/the finish. So I have these posts on the blog…

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    My top 10 posts in 2016 It is very interesting to see what you like to read

    January 20, 2017

    How do you tell a story?

    February 9, 2019

    The NYWF-ty List

    October 11, 2018
  • Blog,  Books,  Writing

    An update on Gin & Tonic

    January 24, 2019 /

    For those of you who are new and who may not be aware, I am writing a crime novel. This should not really surprise anyone. I love reading crime fiction. But I started writing this story last year. And I was lucky enough to smash out some huge chunks of words during my KSP and Varuna writing fellowship stays. I am hoping the book ends up being this madcap dash through Colombo tropical city humidity and heat with two teenage girls puzzling their way through crimes and the cops chasing behind them, missing jewellery, murder, mayhem and secret bars and annoying aunties and all. A few months ago I started…

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    Day 1: Home on my back, home where there is a bed Day 1 of the 2018 KSP-Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 30, 2018
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    Day 3: So many emotions Day 3 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 31, 2018

    How do you tell a story?

    February 9, 2019
  • Blog,  Editing,  Freelancing,  News,  Writing

    The NYWF-ty List

    October 11, 2018 /

    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 about at all the #NYWF2018 sessions over the past weekend.

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    Day 3: So many emotions Day 3 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 31, 2018
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    I hit 10,000 words! Days 5, 6 & 7 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    June 4, 2018
    City of Lights by Sammu on Flickr.

    Sri Lanka, December 2015 – February 2016

    December 5, 2015
  • Freelancing,  Journalism,  Mentoring,  News,  Writing

    Mentoring Cher Tan via Writers Victoria She writes better than I do so it is a tad bit strange for me

    September 13, 2018 /

    I am now a mentor with Writers Victoria. It is pretty cool. Let me explain. I am trying to become a mentor on the IPEd/CSE mentoring program which caters to just editors but at the moment, I am also now a mentor for Writers Victoria. Writers Victoria is a writing centre for the state of Victoria in Australia. They hold events, run workshops and so on but one of the services they offer is mentoring. The Writers Victoria mentoring scheme operates like this: you apply for mentoring and Writers Victoria assess your application. You also nominate someone you want to mentor you from the list of mentors on their website.…

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    Surviving university as a journalism student

    February 13, 2015

    Mentoring: the why and the how of doing it

    December 6, 2013

    How do I figure out what to do?

    June 12, 2013
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    Blog,  Writing

    I hit 10,000 words! Days 5, 6 & 7 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    June 4, 2018 /

    I suppose I gave it away in the title but oh my God! 10,000 words! Here’s what happened on each day. Day 5 was the Friday. Nothing got done on Friday. I was really exhausted. My sleeping patterns were out of whack and I was trying to fix my ear issue. I thought I could go out to meet my union colleagues and friends for drinks and come back and write. The drinks part happened and was fun but the writing part did not happen. So I had zero words for Friday. I had about four to five thousand words at this point to write in order to hit 10,000…

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    The NYWF-ty List

    October 11, 2018
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    Why I am resurrecting my Patreon account

    January 14, 2019
    Workers in black t-shirts outside a Fairfax building with flags protesting job cuts and the takeover by channel nine as part of the union MEAA's campaign.

    January 2019 MEAA Monthly Update

    January 31, 2019
  • Katherine Susannah Pritchard and her typewriter (c) Marisa Wikramanayake
    Blog,  Writing

    Day 4: Freedom to write, freedom for writers Day 4 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    June 1, 2018 /

    Day 4 already. Well, nothing was going to happen on Day 1 given how tired and jetlagged I was. Today, most of the day was pretty boring. I had not slept well the night before. So the day was full of waking, sleeping, doing things I needed to do like eat and so on. I thought about the book a lot. And then I did my makeup, changed, called an Uber and went to see my friend Vicki Laurie interview Peter Greste at the WA State Library. So three things happened today on Day 4: Peter Greste pleasantly surprised me. I was very happy about that. Thank you Peter Greste.…

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    The Writers' Cabins at KSP (c) Writers Bloc

    Day 1: Home on my back, home where there is a bed Day 1 of the 2018 KSP-Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 30, 2018

    How to deal with late payments as a freelancer

    January 26, 2019
    City of Lights by Sammu on Flickr.

    Sri Lanka, December 2015 – February 2016

    December 5, 2015
  • My desk in Phillips cabin at the KSP Writers Centre (c) Marisa Wikramanayake
    Blog,  Writing

    Day 3: So many emotions Day 3 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 31, 2018 /

    Day 3 and I am just grateful. I didn’t get to sleep until five am because I was just so thrilled that I had met my goal. You get a high after you write and type everything in. But I did sleep in bursts till about noon. I would wake up, do some work related things, sleep a bit, write a bit and so on. I woke up at noon and went over to the main house and the office to meet Shannon who is the director here at KSP Writers Centre. I gave her some things from Sri Lanka and she offered to do a pharmacy run for me.…

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    Day 4: Freedom to write, freedom for writers Day 4 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    June 1, 2018

    Gin & Tonic update #2: I was so wrong! AKA #maricantmath

    February 7, 2019
    The Writers' Cabins at KSP (c) Writers Bloc

    Day 1: Home on my back, home where there is a bed Day 1 of the 2018 KSP-Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 30, 2018
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    Blog,  Writing

    Day 2: A cat is here! Day 2 of the KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    May 30, 2018 /

    Day 2 and I woke up joyful today. Joyful because it was such a wonderful thought that I could write and everyone was going to be mindful of that. That no one would disturb me, no one would interrupt me, no one would think to themselves “She is free – let’s get a hold of her.” Also annoyance because my article was overdue and I needed to get it done so I knuckled down to do that while battling my ear going strange again. I made a mental note to see my doctor as soon as I get back to Melbourne. I figured out the A/C and I had a…

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    January 26, 2019
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    Day 4: Freedom to write, freedom for writers Day 4 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship

    June 1, 2018

    Where you will find me in October 2018

    October 11, 2018
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