Marisa Wikramanayake

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    My top 10 posts in 2016

    January 20, 2017 / No Comments

    It is a fact of life that whenever you try to plan your life you end up dropping something at some point – life intervenes and you have to. You have to prioritise. In 2016 it was this blog. But it is interesting to see what my top 10 posts were for 2016 in terms of how many people viewed/read them. I got views despite not being as active as I wanted to be on the blog. I am hoping to change that this year. It is also interesting to see what people read and to try and unpick why that was the case. PS: All headings are clickable and…

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    January 7, 2021
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    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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    January 25, 2013
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    October 28, 2016
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    Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Events,  IPEd Con 2013,  Journalism,  Political journalism,  Projects,  Science journalism,  Updates

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013 / No Comments

    Recovering mostly. The conference is over. But the organisation part of it isn’t. There are accounts to be finalised and even now, still a lot of emails to answer. So let me digress to answer the most often asked question via email now: Conference proceedings will be posted on the website and you will all be emailed to be told when they get uploaded.  But what else have I been up to? Well, I have had a particularly weird and busy time of it and a lot of it has involved writing. So without further ado, here is the list: I have reviewed:  Amanda Curtin’s Elemental which will end up in…

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    January 30, 2013
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    November 20, 2014
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    7 myths about writing

    March 30, 2011 / 7 Comments

    I thought I’d talk about myths about writing, just so we get all those nagging doubts out of the way. One thing that really depresses me is when I meet someone and they find out I am writing a novel and then they go: “Oh, wow, that’s so great – I could never do that!” Now, I guarantee you that one person out of ten has actually looked at themselves long enough and become sufficiently self aware to know that they cannot write a book for whatever reason. I can also guarantee that I have never actually met this one person. I tend to run into the other nine. I…

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    I am the first result on Google!

    July 1, 2009 / 2 Comments

    Marisa discusses how she got her site to become number one in Google Search rankings, using information about her audience, the Google sitmape plugin, meta data and keywords, Google Maps and social media networks.

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    January 14, 2019

    Five years!

    December 16, 2013
  • Updates

    A Blog Carnival's In Town:

    March 29, 2009 / No Comments

    First off, a blog carnival is a regular round up of weblog posts/entries/articles on a particular topic. This week, the lovely folk at thursdaybram.com have accepted two of my posts for their 61st round of articles on the Business of Freelance Writing. The two posts in question are Parts 1 and 2 of the list of things writers/freelancers need to know and both are on this site. Blog carnivals are great ways to get a lot of attention for the writing you publish online. You can submit your articles to blog carnivals by going to BlogCarnivals.com or else you have to wait for someone to notice you. Cheers, Marisa.

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    June 21, 2016

    2014 beckons

    January 1, 2014

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