Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • 365/333 The Oliver Standard Visible Writer No 3 by Rachel via Flickr
    Competitions,  Events,  Work Opportunity,  Writing

    July 2016 Writing Calendar

    July 1, 2016 / 5 Comments

    I decided to put this calendar for the month of June together on a whim. And then people loved it. So this is the monster list of everything even remotely writerly and literary that is going on in Perth and WA in the month of July 2016 from today onwards. So a few quick answers to questions: Will this list always be on this site? MEAA WA is keen to cross-post/host/something along those lines. This will also be cross-posted at Emily Paull‘s site. And possibly on DWOA once we tweak a few things. Can you compile a list for Victoria and Melbourne? Not at this point – no time to spare.…

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    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2013

    Real men do read – they just don't let the sexy, geek goddesses know.

    February 6, 2013

    Competition: African-Australian short stories

    June 2, 2016
  • Plan B by Sebastien Wiertz via Flickr
    Updates

    The writing plan for June

    June 3, 2016 / No Comments

    It’s June today. A June day, today, let’s say since June began the day before yesterday. On this June day my TBR is neither pile nor stack, it is a scatter instead, in bags, on shelves, across the floor, under laptops and beds. It’s also not To Be Read but rather like quantum, a mix between the two, some To Be Read but some also read already so To Be Reviewed. I need a plan. 

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    April 17, 2012

    Introducing In Conversation With

    April 6, 2015

    The Sri Lankan "war generation" and the books that "made" us.

    March 26, 2011
  • Books

    HIM update for Feb 26 and Mar 4 – sorry for the delay!

    March 7, 2016 / No Comments

    Horrible first draft" is not intended to be self depreciating at all - sometimes people I am writing with or speaking to about the ideas in the book jump in and try to tell me not to say that but the reason I do so is to remind myself that this is the stage where I get the story down in words. It isn't the stage where the words have to be awesome - they don't have to be. They just need to tell the story. So it is the horrible first draft now - it will be rewritten and edited and prettified later.

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    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

    HIM update for March 25

    March 25, 2016
  • Books,  Writing

    HIM update for February 19

    February 19, 2016 / No Comments

    What did I write about this past week? Why no one often wants to get out of bed, the long lived nature of chicken dynasties and elderly neighbours who know more pop cultural references than you do. None of which was actually previously planned out by the way, these are just all the random cool things that turn up in my writing as I write.

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

    January 25, 2016
    monochrome photo of person using vintage typewriter

    6 Lessons from a year of writing crime fiction

    February 8, 2022
    temporary book cover for the novel in progress titled HIM by Marisa Wikramanayake

    HIM update for January 15

    January 15, 2016
  • Books,  Writing

    HIM update for February 12

    February 12, 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 are on the mailing list 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: 5,000 Actual word count this week: 1128 Total word count so far: 3135 Total word count goal at this point: 15,000 How long did it take me? 2.5 hours

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    HIM update for Feb 26 and Mar 4 – sorry for the delay!

    March 7, 2016

    Sedition snippet

    January 12, 2013
    temporary book cover for the novel in progress titled HIM by Marisa Wikramanayake

    HIM update for January 8

    January 8, 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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    HIM update for March 25

    March 25, 2016

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

    May 11, 2016
    Makeup by Atjme Love via Flickr

    HIM update for April 29

    April 29, 2016
  • 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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    AWW 2013: Amanda Curtin's Inherited

    January 24, 2013

    Robin Bower’s Beyond Home

    March 28, 2015

    Jane Rawson's A Wrong Turn At The Office Of Unmade Lists

    January 16, 2014
  • A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr
    Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Literary Journalism,  Projects

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

    January 3, 2014 / No Comments

    In 2013, I joined the Australian Women Writers blog and project as the non-fiction contributing editor. This meant I also ended up taking the challenge of at least reading if not reviewing various books by female Australian authors. I read, I reviewed, I interviewed. Here's the round up of the books, the authors and the fun.

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    Caitlyn Nicholas' Drive Me To Distraction

    February 21, 2013

    Introducing In Conversation With

    April 6, 2015

    Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits

    January 3, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Journalism,  Projects

    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013 / No Comments

    “The hero is an eunuch.” said the author Marj McRae. “Wait, what?” was my reaction. She emailed me the link, I downloaded Not A Man in e-book form and dove in. An eunuch – I expected there to be a few descriptions of not so very nice things – violence and rape. I mean, it’s a young boy being castrated. And frankly, I was stunned by the level of research and detail. I now know a lot of very interesting things about castration and about Oxford. That’s right, Oxford. As in Oxford University. You see, Shuki, is not content with the fate of other eunuchs – lovable as along as…

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    February 13, 2014

    Robin Bower’s Beyond Home

    March 28, 2015
    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    May 25, 2016
  • Poetry,  Projects,  Writing

    On pens, paper and meaning

    November 17, 2012 / 1 Comment

    I have a sudden irresistible urge to buy pens. That gush with ink with colours seeping into white woven fibres on the page. Paper was meant to be written, scribbled, scrawled, drawn on, meaning overflowing arbitrarily declared boundaries. Everything ever present or absent on a page means something, and contributes to a larger idea and even more amazingly, can be wrought so that the exact intended idea is conveyed or so the reader is free to dream beyond convention. Someone go buy me pens. Because there is paper here. – Marisa Wikramanayake

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