Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Writing

    My Top Seven … Flawed Characters

    June 7, 2016 / No Comments

    This list comes to your wonderful eyeballs courtesy of Madame Annabel Smith, she of Whisky Charlie Foxtrot fame. She likes a sassy rogue, a cheeky devil, a lovable larrikin… you get the idea. The lovable rogue is a literary trope in the form of a character, often from a dysfunctional or working-class upbringing, who tends to recklessly defy norms and social conventions but who still evokes empathy from the audience or other characters.    – Wikipedia So then she decided to list her top ten favourite lovable rogues from the world of fiction. 

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  • Book Reviews,  Competitions,  Journalism,  Updates

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

    February 6, 2013 / 12 Comments

    Rob Kennedy, an Australian poet (and male for the purposes of this discussion) asked this question in a blog post recently: Do real men read books?* He had several issues with this question: What the hell constitutes a “real man” anyway? To which I nod my head furiously because yes, what the hell are we discussing when we talk about “real men”? What makes one man more “real” than the next, apart from the fact that maybe he isn’t some intangible figure in your brain…… moving on. The reason he asked the question in the first place was because he had found a lot of American based programs and websites…

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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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  • Book Reviews

    Book Review – Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals

    October 6, 2009 / 6 Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake reviews Terry Pratchett's latest novel in the Discworld Series, Unseen Academicals and lists links to buy the book online. Sometimes you just get lucky. Lucky is what I am. Terry Pratchett's latest novel Unseen Academicals gets released today (Oct. 6th) in the United States but if you are in Australia, it's already out in hardcover in the stores for $49.95 AUD. Amazon has it here for $14.03 USD.

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