Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Travelogues

    Preston Point Road, East Fremantle, Western Australia

    December 11, 2015 / No Comments

    [aesop_map height=”100″ sticky=”top”] “Ten minutes or so,” the guy at the pizza place says. I nod and walk out. And then walk on. Down Canning Highway, towards Freo. [aesop_map_marker title=”Canning Highway” hidden=”off”]   I should have known that when I started out to the pizzeria and found out that the girl at number 196 keeps chickens (who by comparison in size to Trouble the cat MUST be over 5 kilos), that I would go exploring today. And so I walk past the carpark of the swim school where either someone has bled to death after an accident or dropped a jar of tomato sauce while loading groceries into the car…

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    Christmas in Colombo: Sri Lanka December 2015 – February 2016 Trip

    December 27, 2015

    Coastal Correspondence: Sri Lanka December 2015 – January 2016 Trip

    December 20, 2015
    4th Cross Street Pettah, Colombo 1890-1910 provided by Lankapura via Flickr

    Week 4 or How to survive NYE week in Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka December 2015 – February 2015 Trip

    January 3, 2016
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews

    Marianne de Pierres' Glitter Rose

    February 6, 2014 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake reviews author Marianne de Pierres collection Glitter Rose for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014

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    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2013

    Eleni Konstantine's Snoop

    February 13, 2014

    AWW 2013: Ann-Marie Priest's Great Writers, Great Loves

    January 31, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Competitions

    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2014 / 1 Comment

    Marisa Wikramanayake takes part in the Australia Day Book giveaway Blog Hop for 2014, giving away a choice of two books from the never ending giveaway pile.

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    Introducing In Conversation With

    April 6, 2015

    Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits

    January 3, 2013

    The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016

    January 11, 2016
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Journalism,  Literary Journalism

    Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014

    January 6, 2014 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake announces her intention to participate in the Australian Women Writers Challenge for 2014

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    Eleni Konstantine's Snoop

    February 13, 2014

    The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016

    January 11, 2016

    AWW 2013: Ann-Marie Priest's Great Writers, Great Loves

    January 31, 2013
  • Monday musings,  Updates

    Five years!

    December 16, 2013 / 2 Comments

    It’s been five years since I started freelancing. Or at least it was on Saturday. Five years. Wow. A lot can happen in five years. I started freelancing because I knew it would take awhile to get my foot in the door and work in-house and also because I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to. Freelancing is great – it allows me to work with a lot of different people, it allows me to meet different people and it allows me to mentor some and be mentored by others. It allows me to try new things and to keep constantly learning. And I am reminded that it also means that…

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    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

    My love affair with books

    May 27, 2013

    Monday musing: The Other Writer

    September 2, 2013
  • Freelancing,  Journalism

    How to get started in journalism

    November 29, 2013 / 4 Comments

    While meandering through Facebook one day, I noticed that a younger friend of mine had tagged me in a status post. I clicked through to see what it was about and why he would feel the need to mention my name. It was the status of a friend of his, a young university student and he had offered my name in the comments on it as part of the advice he had offered to this student’s query. The query was this: Made another application but it doesn’t look like I’ll even get an interview  how the fuck am I supposed to become a journalist if no one will hire me without…

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    14 easy rules to simplify your workflow and life as a freelancer

    June 4, 2013
    white money printed card

    How much I made in 2021 as a freelancer

    January 25, 2022

    How to network at an editors' conference

    January 14, 2013
  • Journalism,  Real Scientists,  Science journalism

    53 free ways for science journalists to brush up on their science… and counting

    November 25, 2013 / No Comments

    This is a list of FREELY AVAILABLE basic science primers, courses and videos that science journalists can take to brush up on their beats/niches/topics of interest. NOTE 1: MOOCS = Massive open online courses = free, short, online, provided by universities to give you a primer in the basics of a scientific topic of study. Both MOOCs and the Coursera courses will use Youtube videos so don’t eliminate them on that basis. NOTE 2: Coursera courses vary in length and whether you get a certificate at the end and are offered at different times so some of the ones listed below may drop off and on again depending on when…

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    AWW 2013: Marion Halligan's Murder On The Apricot Coast

    February 7, 2013

    iPhone app replaces doctors' logbooks

    October 28, 2010

    Kangaroo fossils give insights into changes in biodiversity

    September 16, 2010
  • Freelancing

    Best places in Fremantle to write

    September 27, 2013 / No Comments

    A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. – Virginia Woolf, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ And if you need a change of scenery, then here are the best places in Fremantle in which to write. They are in no particular order and I am only listing the great things about them – find the one that is your particular nesting ground. As for criteria – warmth, wi-fi, food and drink and a general sense of people being around is the bare minimum for me as well as minimal distraction. Dome cafe, South Terrace/Cafe Strip, Fremantle What is awesome about it?…

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    A mug full of coffee on an open planner

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

    June 26, 2020

    Cents & Sensibility: Networking

    October 7, 2011

    The NYWF-ty List

    October 11, 2018
  • How to write a book,  Projects,  Writing

    How to write a book: Part 1: Introduction

    September 25, 2013 / 4 Comments

    Three years is a long time. Three years ago, I was asked to run an online group on how to write books. The posts ended up here. A lot has changed in three years. It’s time to re-issue the posts with updated information. So for the next few weeks, every Wednesday (or for some of you, Tuesday night) there will be a post to do with writing a book, answering a specific question in your email and posted on this blog. What’s your part in this? Well, you are welcome to sit back and read the posts but you can also participate. You don’t need to be writing a book,…

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    The writing process, step by step

    April 27, 2011

    How to write a book: Part 5: Structure (or Chapter and verse)

    April 13, 2011

    Inspiration (or is there a muse?)

    April 6, 2011
  • Events,  Updates

    Crimescene WA & Real Scientists

    September 23, 2013 / No Comments

    I am really rather excited about the second week of October this year. Why? Well, the week starts on the 6th of October. And at midnight sharp on the 6th of October, I take over the @realscientists account on Twitter. The @realscientists account is curated/run each week by a scientist, science writer, science artist, science communicator, science illustrator… you get the idea. The aim of the project is to get more information about science, all sorts of science, out to the public. And I am part excited, part terrified, part nervous about taking over tweeting about what I do to do with science for a whole week. If you have…

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    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going?

    September 6, 2017

    Events you should be attending during the holiday season in 2013

    November 26, 2013

    How do you tell a story?

    February 9, 2019
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