Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Writing

    Watch “The true story of ‘true’ – Gina Cooke” on YouTube

    June 13, 2016 / No Comments

    This is a fantastic piece on etymology and the fascinating ways in which we have thought about ourselves and ideas and how we can trace all that by following the history of a word. Word nerds, geek out.

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    HIM and the experiment to write the draft under watching eyes

    February 3, 2016
    Marisa Wikramanayake will be appearing at two sessions at the Digital Writers Festival this year.

    I’m in the Digital Writers Festival this year!

    October 28, 2016

    How do you tell a story?

    February 9, 2019
  • Freelancing

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

    June 7, 2013 / 2 Comments

    What the hell is a style sheet?  Well, in computer lingo, it’s CSS or a cascading style sheet which tells you what everything on every HTML page of your website looks like design wise. It’s supposed to make it more efficient to create and design websites. But that’s not what you mean right?  No, it’s not. Say you are an author (fiction, non-fiction, corporate, government, whatever) and you send a document (your precious, your boss’ precious and so on) to an editor. And the editor sends the document back and a few others, one of which is this weird combination of the alphabet and square boxes. That little document is…

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    Top down shot of two people sitting across from each other a table having coffee with just their arms and cups in view

    10 Important Things You Need To Know About Finding A Mentor

    January 14, 2021
    Mentoring and mentorships for writers

    9 unexpected helpful lessons learnt as a freelance writer in 2016

    January 27, 2017

    Freelancing Friday: A day in the life

    April 23, 2010
  • 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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    What do you mean there is a conference in four days' time?

    April 6, 2013

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

    March 2, 2013

    How to network at an editors' conference

    January 14, 2013
  • IPEd Con 2013,  Projects

    Twitter feed for the Wednesday Workshops

    April 10, 2013 / No Comments

    The Wednesday workshops have started. Refresh the page to keep seeing the latest tweets and photos. As always, please check the main conference blog for all the posts, tweets and photos. Tweets about “#ipedcon2013 OR #rockstarfreelancelifestyle”

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    The final #ipedcon2013 Program!

    April 6, 2013

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

    April 6, 2013

    The Rockstar Freelance Lifestyle

    April 10, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Projects

    AWW 2013: Amanda Curtin's Inherited

    January 24, 2013 / 4 Comments

      Precision is what comes to my mind, first. Amanda Curtin likes to write about connections, between person to person, between person and object, person and landscape. And about how those connections make us feel. Or why they are unique to us. Why they don’t make any sense or at least a different kind of sense to others. The back cover blurb for the book tells us:     Inherited brings together stories about the gifts and burdens we inherit from the world or from those we love, and what we, in turn, leave behind. Inherited is her latest collection of short stories. And every word in each story belongs…

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    A few right thinking men by Sulari Gentill

    Sulari Gentill’s A Few Right Thinking Men

    June 6, 2016

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

    January 16, 2014

    Australian Love Stories

    November 20, 2014
  • Writing

    Why you shouldn't let your muse get drunk on champagne/how to braintrain your muse

    May 4, 2011 / 1 Comment

    Muses and alcohol… when you need control, that’s not a healthy mix.   So this came about because someone I know who requests writing advice on a regular basis, said she had a muse problem. The person she had based her muse on was going through a change of circumstances and that meant that she felt uninspired to continue writing – the change didn’t fit the story.   So I thought I’d clear up some things about muses.

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    16 rules for writing

    September 4, 2013
    Plan B by Sebastien Wiertz via Flickr

    It’s one day to NaNoWriMo people.

    October 31, 2016
    365/333 The Oliver Standard Visible Writer No 3 by Rachel via Flickr

    July 2016 Writing Calendar

    July 1, 2016

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