Marisa Wikramanayake

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    Freelancing,  Journalism,  Productivity

    Three important stories I wrote in 2021 as a freelance journalist

    February 15, 2022 / No Comments

    Three stories I wrote in 2021 as a freelance journalist and why they were important.

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    Freelance writing plans for 2017

    January 6, 2017
    A phone with messags on its screen sits on a desk in front of a lit up keyboard

    My 10 Compelling Reasons For Running Youtube Livestreams Right Now

    January 22, 2021

    Freelancing Friday: A day in the life

    April 23, 2010
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    Freelancing,  Productivity,  Updates

    How much I made in 2021 as a freelancer

    January 25, 2022 / No Comments

    How much I made in 2021 as a freelancer in Australia and why it is important to be transparent about it.

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    My year in writing: 2016 and the freelance writer life

    December 16, 2016
    Marisa Wikramanayake works on a story as a journalist and in this post showing you how to write a freelance pitch

    How to write a freelance pitch to an editor

    September 17, 2021

    How to deal with late payments as a freelancer

    January 26, 2019
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    Freelancing,  Productivity,  Updates

    My goals for 2022: making my freelancing work better for me

    January 18, 2022 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake talks through what her goals for 2022 are and how she is planning to achieve them.

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    The NYWF-ty List

    October 11, 2018
    A phone with messags on its screen sits on a desk in front of a lit up keyboard

    My 10 Compelling Reasons For Running Youtube Livestreams Right Now

    January 22, 2021
    white money printed card

    How much I made in 2021 as a freelancer

    January 25, 2022
  • writings in a planner
    Freelancing,  Productivity,  Updates

    How to successfully set goals and plan for 2022

    January 11, 2022 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake writes about how to plan for 2022 and set goals as a freelancer.

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    6 May 2013: MediaPass Student Industry Day

    April 16, 2013

    For the confused author/editor: Style sheets vs Style guides

    June 7, 2013

    25+ ways I automate my workflow, or how I am trying to become a cyborg

    May 23, 2013
  • Fallon Michael's photo of eyeglasses on book beside macbook for Marisa Wikramanayake's blog post about their 2021 year in review
    Freelancing,  Productivity,  Updates

    My 2021 year in review – amazing goals success or failure?

    January 4, 2022 / No Comments

    The 2021 year in review - were all the goals met and hit and what of COVID-19? Marisa Wikramanayake looks back at her work over the year.

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    Marisa Wikramanayake works on a story as a journalist and in this post showing you how to write a freelance pitch

    How to write a freelance pitch to an editor

    September 17, 2021
    Mentoring and mentorships for writers

    9 unexpected helpful lessons learnt as a freelance writer in 2016

    January 27, 2017
    art coffee business money

    Three important stories I wrote in 2021 as a freelance journalist

    February 15, 2022
  • Writing

    Elizabeth Gilbert on the drive to keep creating

    January 25, 2016 / No Comments

    Last week I shared Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED Talk on the creative genius and the expectations we place on people. A few years after that talk, she gave another one – this time it was about how to navigate the vagaries of creative work – not just thinking about creativity and genius but also how to get back into a productive state where you can not only shield yourself from expectations and fears but also carry on with your work and reconcile both failure and success. And she makes a good point about what home is – she asks what one loves more than one loves oneself or one’s ego and…

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    Freelance writing plans for 2017

    January 6, 2017
    A phone with messags on its screen sits on a desk in front of a lit up keyboard

    My 10 Compelling Reasons For Running Youtube Livestreams Right Now

    January 22, 2021

    How do you tell a story?

    February 9, 2019
  • Opinion,  Writing

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

    January 20, 2016 / No Comments

    Note: I wrote this piece after seeing this image sometime in December 2014 on Facebook. I was reminded of it recently and thought I would repost it here: [aesop_parallax img=”http://marisa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/10689919_10153438607982501_2808857729860272201_n.jpg” parallaxbg=”on” captionposition=”bottom-left” lightbox=”on” floater=”off” floaterposition=”left” floaterdirection=”up”]   There are career paths and structures that support various other occupations but some of us don’t get that stability when doctors, lawyers, accountants etc can. And you can sell a million books and still make less than $10,000 per year because you get a small percentage of each sale as royalties. Every writer or artist or anyone in a similar occupation that has to deal with this weird pay inequality gap type thing…

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  • 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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    Round up 05/01/2013 – 19/01/2013

    January 19, 2013
    365/333 The Oliver Standard Visible Writer No 3 by Rachel via Flickr

    Do you want a DWoA writing group?

    June 21, 2016

    Events you should be attending during the holiday season in 2013

    November 26, 2013

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