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  • Blog,  Freelancing,  Journalism,  Writing

    9 things I did not expect in 2017 & Happy New Year!

    January 1, 2018 / No Comments

    2017 has been a year full of ups and downs.  Or at least for me, a lot of things that I well – did not expect to happen. Not to me. I am still quite giddy and grateful and in other ways also sad. We had a lot of unnecessary violence, hate and tragedy this past year. I did not expect… so much travelling I did not expect to travel as much as I did. I criss crossed Australia for the IPEd 2017 Editors’ Conference in Brisbane as a speaker and for the MEAA for union meetings.  You can catch up on my conference updates here. I did not expect……

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    Where you will find me in October 2018

    October 11, 2018
    An image of two hands writing in front of a computer screen with a phone on top of papers on a desk

    How to easily track pitches in Google Sheets as a freelance journalist

    January 7, 2021
    Latest piece of research for the foundation fellowship: the book titled Police in Sri Lanka by Frank de Silva

    Foundation Fellowship update: a bit about Gin and Tonic

    January 12, 2018
  • Freelancing,  Writing

    My year in writing: 2016 and the freelance writer life

    December 16, 2016 / 2 Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake writes about what 2016 has been like for her as a freelance writer, editor and journalist and what it meant for her career.

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    My 10 Compelling Reasons For Running Youtube Livestreams Right Now

    January 22, 2021
    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

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

    June 4, 2013
  • Piano by Kim Slever via Flickr
    Writing

    Reader question: what sort of music do you listen to when writing?

    May 18, 2016 / No Comments

    The simple answer is that it varies. At one point while writing Sedition, I listened to UB40 and a lot of reggae. I like reggae. I like drums and saxophone. At another point there was a lot of old ’20s jazz standards I listened to that you can download from here. For free. Right now editing Sedition, I am listening to my friend’s surrealist nerd punk pop rock stuff – her band is called My First Telescope. But to work on HIM, I often write while going through the backlog of vlogbrothers videos on Youtube on my phone. Or while catching up on the Wimbly Womblies’ progress in FIFA. As in…

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    Why you should love your writers more (or pay us more)

    January 20, 2016

    My year in writing: 2016 and the freelance writer life

    December 16, 2016
    365/333 The Oliver Standard Visible Writer No 3 by Rachel via Flickr

    July 2016 Writing Calendar

    July 1, 2016
  • Books,  Updates

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

    May 11, 2016 / No Comments

    So here is the news. I am going to slow down considerably on writing HIM. I can hear you: “You were supposed to finish by mid-April!” Yes, I know. The funny thing about books is that they don’t generally behave the way you would like them to. Ditto for life. So why am I decelerating on HIM at the moment? Lots of reasons but mostly: I want to enter the Vogel Awards and the Richell Prize. The deadline for Vogels is 31 May. The deadline for Richell is 1 June. I want to enter Sedition into the Vogels but that means editing Sedition before 31 May which at the moment…

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    An update on Gin & Tonic

    January 24, 2019

    HIM and the experiment to write the draft under watching eyes

    February 3, 2016

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

    February 7, 2019
  • Updates

    2013's very odd resolution list

    January 4, 2013 / 2 Comments

    This being the start of 2013, of course everyone is talking about New Year Resolutions. In fact, come December 1st everyone starts ruminating on this topic. And then of course there is a lot of angst over what one hasn’t done yet and that horrible nagging feeling that somehow you are running out of time to do X, Y and Z and therefore be happy. So in the interests of preserving some sanity here, because let’s be honest, me being me, I have very little sanity or so people tell me, let’s do this differently. What was 2012 like? Well, lets see. It was unexpectedly social at points – in…

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    The Defying Doomsday Anthology

    April 12, 2015
    Marisa Wikramanayake will be appearing at two sessions at the Digital Writers Festival this year.

    I am now on Patreon

    December 4, 2015

    I need your help!

    April 17, 2012
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Books,  Projects,  Sedition,  Updates

    The Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013

    December 30, 2012 / 4 Comments

    The challenge is to read, review and promote Australian female writers in 2013. You can sign up here. I guess a special part of this challenge is that as I am an Australian female writer, I should try to get my book finished as well. So I won’t just be reviewing, I will be writing as well. So I will update you as I go. Australian Female Authors & Titles My first title to be reviewed will be Kerry Greenwood’s latest Phryne Fisher novel Unnatural Habits. My (probably third, rather than second since I do not have the book with me right now) will be Amanda Curtin’s latest collection of short…

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    AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae

    January 17, 2013

    Eleni Konstantine's Snoop

    February 13, 2014

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

    January 31, 2013
  • Updates

    Writing Meme: Write Anything

    November 1, 2009 / 1 Comment

    I’s not a Monday but I am bored. Here you go – three questions to answer: 1. List one of your writing goals for the upcoming month and how likely you are to accomplish it. Write a lot of science network wa articles? Accomplishing it is easy as far as going through my feed reader and sending off potential ideas to my editor, getting the ok and then contacting the people involved. Then I freak out about interviewing them, interview them and then I freak out about writing the articles. My editor gets them though. 2. What genre or subject you would like to write about that you aren’t currently?…

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    Five years!

    December 16, 2013

    Diverse and need a writing group?

    October 23, 2016
    white money printed card

    How much I made in 2021 as a freelancer

    January 25, 2022
  • Updates

    Link List Love: 26/10/2009

    October 26, 2009 / 4 Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake lists what she has experienced/consumed/done for the past week or so in terms of reading, writing, music, gaming and more.

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    Round up 05/01/2013 – 19/01/2013

    January 19, 2013

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

    March 2, 2013
    Happy 2017! Fireworks by Prabhu Balakrishnan via Flickr

    Happy New Year!

    December 31, 2016

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