Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Blog,  Editing,  Freelancing,  Updates,  Writing

    The NYWF-ty List

    October 11, 2018 / No Comments

    NYWF is National Young Writers Festival and this is the "NYWFty" ("nifty") list because it is truly nifty and is full of the resources the young writers were asking me and other people about at all the #NYWF2018 sessions over the past weekend.

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

    February 7, 2019
    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

    How to deal with late payments as a freelancer

    January 26, 2019
  • Freelancing for Editors – Writers’ Bloc Online Course

    June 21, 2018 / No Comments

    So some of you have been waiting for this for awhile. Writers’ Bloc polled a few of you and you wanted a Freelancing for Editors course. So on June 21, I will be teaching you how to get set up and started as a freelancing editor, what you need to remember and know and how to find work and set your rates and a few tips and tricks to start. But you need to go book now and spread the word. It’s $25 per course and $17 for concession/low income earners and you can get three courses for $59! The other two courses will be run by Benjamin Law which…

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  • My desk in Phillips cabin at the KSP Writers Centre (c) Marisa Wikramanayake
    Blog,  Writing

    Day 3: So many emotions

    May 31, 2018 / No Comments

    Day 3 and I am just grateful. I didn’t get to sleep until five am because I was just so thrilled that I had met my goal. You get a high after you write and type everything in. But I did sleep in bursts till about noon. I would wake up, do some work related things, sleep a bit, write a bit and so on. I woke up at noon and went over to the main house and the office to meet Shannon who is the director here at KSP Writers Centre. I gave her some things from Sri Lanka and she offered to do a pharmacy run for me.…

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    10 Important Things You Need To Know About Finding A Mentor

    January 14, 2021

    MEAA news for February 2019

    February 28, 2019
    Workers in black t-shirts outside a Fairfax building with flags protesting job cuts and the takeover by channel nine as part of the union MEAA's campaign.

    January 2019 MEAA Monthly Update

    January 31, 2019
  • Updates

    7 useful lessons I learnt from an unexpected laptopless week

    January 23, 2017 / No Comments

    A lesson can show up at the oddest moment. Over the Christmas break, my laptop died. It was eight years old and the battery stopped working and the power cord no longer functioned well when plugged in. After having upgraded the hinges, the battery, the memory and several other parts of the laptop over the years, I knew it was time to get a new one. I generally try to hold on to laptops and technology for as long as possible – I don’t want to waste by getting new stuff as it comes out for the sake of getting new stuff if you know what I mean. That’s just…

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    Frocktober, books and other things

    October 9, 2010

    Editor’s notes for Formaldehyde are up!

    September 3, 2015

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

    May 11, 2016
  • 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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    On pens, paper and meaning

    November 17, 2012
    KSP cat by Ashleigh Hardcastle via KSP Writers Centre

    Day 2: A cat is here!

    May 30, 2018
    My desk in Phillips cabin at the KSP Writers Centre (c) Marisa Wikramanayake

    Day 3: So many emotions

    May 31, 2018
  • Freelancing

    16+ mobile apps that allow me to work from my phone

    January 10, 2014 / No Comments

    Robin Bower posted about how she wanted to start using her mobile more for work and Wordpress posting. I asked if she would like a rundown of how I used my mobile for my work and she agreed.

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    6 May 2013: MediaPass Student Industry Day

    April 16, 2013

    The NYWF-ty List

    October 11, 2018
    green typewriter on brown wooden table

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

    January 18, 2022
  • Monday musings,  Updates

    Five years!

    December 16, 2013 / 2 Comments

    It’s been five years since I started freelancing. Or at least it was on Saturday. Five years. Wow. A lot can happen in five years. I started freelancing because I knew it would take awhile to get my foot in the door and work in-house and also because I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to. Freelancing is great – it allows me to work with a lot of different people, it allows me to meet different people and it allows me to mentor some and be mentored by others. It allows me to try new things and to keep constantly learning. And I am reminded that it also means that…

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    Monday musing: The Other Writer

    September 2, 2013
    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

    My love affair with books

    May 27, 2013
  • Freelancing,  Journalism

    How to get started in journalism

    November 29, 2013 / 4 Comments

    While meandering through Facebook one day, I noticed that a younger friend of mine had tagged me in a status post. I clicked through to see what it was about and why he would feel the need to mention my name. It was the status of a friend of his, a young university student and he had offered my name in the comments on it as part of the advice he had offered to this student’s query. The query was this: Made another application but it doesn’t look like I’ll even get an interview  how the fuck am I supposed to become a journalist if no one will hire me without…

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    January 14, 2021

    6 May 2013: MediaPass Student Industry Day

    April 16, 2013

    Surviving university as a journalism student

    February 13, 2015
  • Projects,  Real Scientists

    Curation of @realscientists starts tonight!

    October 6, 2013 / No Comments

    Colour me terrified. @realscientists is the brainchild of a few people, namely @scienceupulie and @DrYobbo both scientists in their own right and also science communicators. Which means they blog and tweet and podcast about science all the time.  @realscientists is a rotation curation Twitter account which means one scientist takes over each week and tweets about his/her work, whatever field of science it may be. The curators are introduced and farewelled each weekend on the Real Scientists blog and their tweets are usually storifyed for posterity as well. Last week it was sharks with @WhySharksMatter taking over for the week. From next Sunday it will be a virologist who likes to…

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    Caitlyn Nicholas' Drive Me To Distraction

    February 21, 2013

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

    February 7, 2013

    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013
  • Freelancing

    Best places in Fremantle to write

    September 27, 2013 / No Comments

    A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. – Virginia Woolf, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ And if you need a change of scenery, then here are the best places in Fremantle in which to write. They are in no particular order and I am only listing the great things about them – find the one that is your particular nesting ground. As for criteria – warmth, wi-fi, food and drink and a general sense of people being around is the bare minimum for me as well as minimal distraction. Dome cafe, South Terrace/Cafe Strip, Fremantle What is awesome about it?…

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    Freelance writing plans for 2017

    January 6, 2017

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

    June 4, 2013
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    10 Important Things You Need To Know About Finding A Mentor

    January 14, 2021
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