Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Blog

    How do freelance journalists get paid?

    February 20, 2019 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake discusses how freelance journalists get paid for their work

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    Katherine Susannah Pritchard and her typewriter (c) Marisa Wikramanayake

    Day 4: Freedom to write, freedom for writers

    June 1, 2018

    How to deal with late payments as a freelancer

    January 26, 2019

    How do you tell a story?

    February 9, 2019
  • Norwich Street Art Warning by MarkHeyBo on Flickr
    Blog,  Updates

    Why I am resurrecting my Patreon account

    January 14, 2019 / No Comments

    Some of you may have already known this via social media or the mailing list. I have restarted my Patreon account. For $1 per month you can read the draft of my crime fiction book Gin & Tonic as I write it, start to finish, with two posts per month. The first one went live yesterday and they are scheduled up until mid July with more to come because I have a ton of pages of scribble to type up. For some of you, this is not your thing at all. You want to know what I do via the blog or the newsletter but you are not really otherwise…

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    What is a typical day for a journalist?

    October 16, 2019
    A phone with messags on its screen sits on a desk in front of a lit up keyboard

    My 10 Compelling Reasons For Running Youtube Livestreams Right Now

    January 22, 2021
    I'm blogging this by Jhayne via Flickr (additional text by me)

    My top 10 posts in 2016

    January 20, 2017
  • temporary book cover for the novel in progress titled HIM by Marisa Wikramanayake
    Books

    HIM update for January 22 on the 26th and much debate about crowdfunding options

    January 25, 2016 / No Comments

    Quick explainer: For those of you who don’t know yet, I am writing my second book HIM and have staggered my word count goals this time. If you support me on Patreon you get to read the first draft. If you don’t you just get this update on whether I hit my goals or not each week. Word count goals this week: 2,000 Actual word count this week: 0 Total word count so far: 2,007 Total word count goal at this point: 6,000 How long did it take me? Not long. I didn’t do anything. Here is the timetable of targets to reach:  Jan 8 – 2,000 words      Feb…

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    Gin & Tonic Update #3

    February 21, 2019
    temporary book cover for the novel in progress titled HIM by Marisa Wikramanayake

    HIM update for January 8

    January 8, 2016

    HIM update for March 25

    March 25, 2016
  • temporary book cover for the novel in progress titled HIM by Marisa Wikramanayake
    Books,  Writing

    HIM update for January 15

    January 15, 2016 / No Comments

    Quick explainer  For those of you who don’t know yet, I am writing my second book HIM and have staggered my word count goals this time. If you support me on Patreon you get to read the first draft.

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    An update on Gin & Tonic

    January 24, 2019

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

    February 7, 2019
    Makeup by Atjme Love via Flickr

    HIM update for April 29

    April 29, 2016
  • Books,  Updates

    Happy New Year! 2016 and a new project!

    January 1, 2016 / 3 Comments

    Happy New Year! I wish you all the best for 2016.  And I hope none of you are too hungover. It’s the time for resolutions and goal settings. So tell me what your goals are for this year? And how are you planning to keep to them?  The second question is a bit more important than the first one. I can set a goal for myself but I need to set a plan in place or I won’t achieve it. And this plan, it needs to work with the person that I am. The person I am will happily map out every possible bit of time and itemise everything possible…

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    HIM update for January 15

    January 15, 2016

    HIM and the experiment to write the draft under watching eyes

    February 3, 2016

    Why my brain has no space and why I have no time

    May 11, 2016
  • Marisa Wikramanayake will be appearing at two sessions at the Digital Writers Festival this year.
    Sedition,  Updates

    I am now on Patreon

    December 4, 2015 / No Comments

    Over the past year, I have been looking into various means and platforms for crowdfunding. Why? Because I have a lot of ideas for novels and projects and while I make enough to support myself, sometimes these novels and projects incur costs to get them underway. The novels, for example, once the manuscripts are done and at first draft, require editing in order to actually be as cohesive and clear as possible before a potential publisher or agent or competition judge sees them. But isn’t that part of what I do? Yes but while that is the service I can provide for other authors, it is not one I can…

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    HIM and the experiment to write the draft under watching eyes

    February 3, 2016

    Sedition snippet

    January 12, 2013
  • Literary Journalism,  Updates,  Writing

    The Defying Doomsday Anthology

    April 12, 2015 / 2 Comments

    Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench are two amazing bibliophiles and activists, of the literary kind. They are also all things speculative fiction crazy. They have come up with an idea that makes you wonder why it hasn’t been done yet. Together with Alisa Krasnostein of Twelfth Planet Press they are planning an anthology of dystopian speculative fiction… with the main characters in each story being disabled/differently abled, neuro diverse or suffering from a chronic or mental illness. What better way to highlight the fact that people have agency and are capable than setting it in a post-apocalyptic context? Intrigued by this, I volunteered to be part of the blog tour and…

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    Robin Bower’s Beyond Home

    March 28, 2015
    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

    Capering criminally with the challenge: what I read for Australian Women Writers 2013

    January 3, 2014

    Interview with Nury Vittachi on the 6th IPEd National Editors' Conference 2013

    March 2, 2013

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