Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Writing

    The Gap by Ira Glass

    May 16, 2016 / No Comments

    For those moments when you despair that what you are creating isn’t as good as you hoped it would be: Video by David Shiyang Liu, found via a group on FB, thank you my darlings.

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    How to write a book: Part 5: Structure (or Chapter and verse)

    April 13, 2011
    Katherine Susannah Pritchard and her typewriter (c) Marisa Wikramanayake

    Day 4: Freedom to write, freedom for writers

    June 1, 2018

    The NYWF-ty List

    October 11, 2018
  • 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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    A few right thinking men by Sulari Gentill

    Sulari Gentill’s A Few Right Thinking Men

    June 6, 2016
    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

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

    January 3, 2014

    Marianne Delacourt’s Sharp Shooter

    April 2, 2015
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews

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

    January 16, 2014 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake reviews Jane Rawson's A Wrong Turn At The Office Of Unmade Lists for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014.

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    Eleni Konstantine's Snoop

    February 13, 2014

    Marianne de Pierres' Glitter Rose

    February 6, 2014

    AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae

    January 17, 2013
  • Monday musings

    Monday musing: The Other Writer

    September 2, 2013 / No Comments

    There’s a girl in Dome, a-sitting and a-writing in the corner, sharp as a tack and watching everything. And so I look up from my laptop and catch her and I know she’s people watching and writing about the two friends next to her, the guy who strikes up a conversation with the barista, the weird regular in the corner who has to keep counting to himself and who likes numbers and needs to know the time. And she is writing about me. I know that look of feigned disinterest and don’t-mind-me-I’m-in-another-world-minding-my-own-business-here because I have worn it so many times. And she has written pages and pages, trying not to…

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    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

    My love affair with books

    May 27, 2013

    Five years!

    December 16, 2013
  • IPEd Con 2013,  Projects

    The Rockstar Freelance Lifestyle

    April 10, 2013 / No Comments

    Speakers/Presenters: Sarah J H Fletcher, Abigail Nathan, Patrick Horneman, Karen Strain, Dinesh Aggarwal and Marisa Wikramanayake The idea originally came about via a Twitter discussion between Sarah, Abigail and I. We had met at Sydney in 2011 where Abigail had the both equally pleasurable and painful experience of helping to plan a conference and I was about to embark on it myself. But then there was much waving of hands. We wanted to make it fun as well as helpful. And I ran into Patrick Horneman at the MediaPass Student Industry days for journalism graduates and students where I was expounding on freelancing as a journalist and he was expounding…

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

    March 2, 2013

    What do you mean there is a conference in four days' time?

    April 6, 2013

    How to network at an editors' conference

    January 14, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Journalism,  Projects

    AWW 2013: Marion Halligan's Murder On The Apricot Coast

    February 7, 2013 / 2 Comments

    When I first found this book, I was thrilled. Crime fiction is the genre I love diving into and it always thrills me to find a potentially interesting, intriguing new crime fiction author I haven’t found before. And then I realised it was the sequel, not the first offering in the series. So I searched the shop in vain for another Halligan but there was none to be found. I didn’t want to miss something by reading them out of order. Eventually I walked out of the shop with Murder On The Apricot Coast in my hands. And I started reading. There is the promised murder of course but there also…

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    Marianne Delacourt’s Sharp Shooter

    April 2, 2015

    AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae

    January 17, 2013
    A few right thinking men by Sulari Gentill

    Sulari Gentill’s A Few Right Thinking Men

    June 6, 2016
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Journalism,  Projects

    AWW 2013: Interview with Amanda Curtin

    February 1, 2013 / 1 Comment

    Amanda Curtin is the author of Inherited, which I reviewed a couple of weeks ago for the AWW 2013 challenge. I first met her through the Society of Editors (WA) on whose committee she had served for something like 16 years. Amanda is also taking part in the AWW 2013 challenge as a reader and as a reviewer in between editing, teaching and writing. Her next book is Elemental which is coming out in May so you can guess what I will be reading then. You can also read her answers to the Next Big Thing meme about Elemental here. Even better, if you think she is cool, you can meet her in…

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    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan

    May 25, 2016

    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2013

    Marianne Delacourt’s Sharp Shooter

    April 2, 2015
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Competitions,  Projects,  Updates

    So who won the Australia Day Book Giveaway?

    January 30, 2013 / 4 Comments

    Who won the haul? That’s what you want to know right? What haul? This haul! Which I have to say is a pretty amazing haul. But what I found amazing were your comments. Thank you guys. It was really interesting to see what your favourite poems were and the reasons why as well. So while my cat ponders which one of you is lucky enough to win (or is distasteful enough that she doesn’t swallow the piece of paper your name is written on), let’s see some of your poetry favourites. KathArine (who does spell her name like that) kicks us off with Robert Frost: “Nature’s first green is gold,…

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

    January 31, 2013
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013
    A few right thinking men by Sulari Gentill

    Sulari Gentill’s A Few Right Thinking Men

    June 6, 2016
  • Science journalism,  Updates

    The Naked Scientists' Mexican Twave

    November 19, 2012 / No Comments

    So I suddenly saw that the BBC wanted to cancel the science Q & A radio show The Naked Scientists and that they had organised a massive #savethenakedscientists mexican twave where they tried to get one tweet retweeted around the world within the hour that they usually have their show on the air. Here are the tweets because it’s going on now and you can join in. Tweets about “#savethenakedscientists”

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    False balance: A science journalism pitfall

    October 2, 2012

    Designated Director Designate designates direction for marine research

    March 24, 2011

    Big Bang confusion

    March 16, 2011
  • Game Reviews,  Projects

    The Book of Unwritten Tales

    October 7, 2012 / No Comments

    There is an easy way to tell if a game is actually any good. Check to see if it has the Lace Mamba logo on the box. Lace Mamba are not the actual developers of The Book of Unwritten Tales. No, that acclaim goes to King Art Games, specifically  the creators Marc Konig and Jan Theysen,  who released the game in late 2011. It has taken awhile to vend its way to Australian shores however and after that awhile to vend its way into my hands. And Lace Mamba have picked a winner to publish, one specifically written to take you back to the old school point and click adventure games.…

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    Game review: Machinarium by Amanita Design

    August 7, 2010
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