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Setting goals as a freelance journalist
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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ONLINE WEBINAR: The Business End – To Freelance or Not To Freelance
Writers’ Victoria has kindly organised an online course for anyone looking to start freelancing or anyone who has just started out. What you need to know: Online from 6 pm to 7:30 pm $20 for concession & $45 but an additional 20% off the ticket price if you book before February Rounded is offering a special discount for its accounting software to those who attend the webinar What will we cover: Mindset and how to think about business and freelancing How to set yourself up properly How to make everything function efficiently What you need versus what you don’t need It will be part setup, part tips and tricks. DATE:…
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What’s happening in February 2019
One month is nearly over. Here is what is happening with me in the next month. Freelancing course via Writers Victoria If you have not booked yet, book now for 20% off a spot (tickets are $20 to 45 AUD) at the online webinar on freelancing that I am running through Writers’ Victoria on Feb 4. It’s online, you don’t need to get out of bed and its affordable and you may learn some cool new tips and tricks and ideas. Telling Tales at Women In Media Victoria Straight after that on Feb 11, I will be at the Metropolitan Hotel with several other awesome journalists, telling stories about our…
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The NYWF-ty List
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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Freelancing for Editors – Writers’ Bloc Online Course
So some of you have been waiting for this for awhile. Writers’ Bloc polled a few of you and you wanted a Freelancing for Editors course. So on June 21, I will be teaching you how to get set up and started as a freelancing editor, what you need to remember and know and how to find work and set your rates and a few tips and tricks to start. But you need to go book now and spread the word. It’s $25 per course and $17 for concession/low income earners and you can get three courses for $59! The other two courses will be run by Benjamin Law which…
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Upcoming events in June 2018 AKA where you can find me this month
I am going to be rather tired this month. But that’s a good thing because you get to see me at several events during June. Check out the events page. Continuum Panels The very first one kicks off in two days time: So You Want To Be A Book Reviewer? This is an awesome panel at the Continuum Speculative Fiction Convention at the Jasper Hotel in Melbourne running from Friday 8 June to Monday 11 June. I am on it with Figgy and Elizabeth Fitzgerald and it starts at 5 pm on Friday. We will discuss how book reviewing changes depending on how you do it, what you need to…
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Day 3: So many emotions Day 3 of the Inaugural 2018 KSP - Varuna Foundation Fellowship
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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Presentation at Canberra Society of Editors
I will be speaking at the February 2018 meeting of the Canberra Society of Editors on all things freelancing and editing. Stay tuned for more details.
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Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017 The cheat sheet/summary notes for the freelancing panel
I’m not necessarily going to write these notes out in order but here is a quick run down of my bootstrapping for a freelancing business. Use tech to bring freelancing work to you: I find that my work comes through being the first person to email someone as soon as an opportunity comes up. I also find it useful to work across time zones. So how do you bootstrap this? And for free? Facebook groups: figure out which group has the most posts for the sort of work you want to do popping up and change its settings so that you are notified by Facebook of new posts popping up.…
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IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going? Pssst. It will be me.
Yay! I am off to the IPEd conference! And then of course you would ask “Yeah, ok Mari, what does IPEd stand for?” IPED: Institute of Professional Editors. Professional society of editors working either in-house or freelance throughout Australia. Basically, once every two years, somewhere in a state capital, the IPEd conference is set up and run by the local branch of IPEd. In 2013, it was our turn in Perth and yours truly was the IPEd Conference convenor. Yes. There is a video on the about me page. Go watch it. We were cool. In 2015, the IPEd Conference was in Canberra but I could not go. I was…
