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  • Katherine Susannah Pritchard and her typewriter (c) Marisa Wikramanayake
    Blog,  Writing

    Day 4: Freedom to write, freedom for writers

    June 1, 2018 / No Comments

    Day 4 already. Well, nothing was going to happen on Day 1 given how tired and jetlagged I was. Today, most of the day was pretty boring. I had not slept well the night before. So the day was full of waking, sleeping, doing things I needed to do like eat and so on. I thought about the book a lot. And then I did my makeup, changed, called an Uber and went to see my friend Vicki Laurie interview Peter Greste at the WA State Library. So three things happened today on Day 4: Peter Greste pleasantly surprised me. I was very happy about that. Thank you Peter Greste.…

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    January 24, 2019
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    January 20, 2017
    Norwich Street Art Warning by MarkHeyBo on Flickr

    Why I am resurrecting my Patreon account

    January 14, 2019
  • Projects,  Real Scientists

    Day 1: Explosions, books & how to keep kids keen

    October 7, 2013 / No Comments

    [<a href=”//storify.com/571811/day-1-explosions-books-and-how-to-keep-kids-keen” target=”_blank”>View the story “Day 1: Explosions, books & how to keep kids keen” on Storify</a>]

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    Caitlyn Nicholas' Drive Me To Distraction

    February 21, 2013

    False balance: A science journalism pitfall

    October 2, 2012

    Rapping for the 6th IPEd National Editors' Conference, 2013

    November 14, 2012
  • 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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    International Women's Day: "Woman"

    March 9, 2011

    An editor's take on crime fiction

    October 12, 2013

    How do I get started?

    April 20, 2011
  • 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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    Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017

    September 14, 2017

    Surviving university as a journalism student

    February 13, 2015

    How do I figure out what to do?

    June 12, 2013
  • How to write a book,  Projects,  Writing

    How to write a book: Part 1: Introduction

    September 25, 2013 / 4 Comments

    Three years is a long time. Three years ago, I was asked to run an online group on how to write books. The posts ended up here. A lot has changed in three years. It’s time to re-issue the posts with updated information. So for the next few weeks, every Wednesday (or for some of you, Tuesday night) there will be a post to do with writing a book, answering a specific question in your email and posted on this blog. What’s your part in this? Well, you are welcome to sit back and read the posts but you can also participate. You don’t need to be writing a book,…

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    How do I get started?

    April 20, 2011

    Inspiration (or is there a muse?)

    April 6, 2011

    7 myths about writing

    March 30, 2011
  • Events,  Updates

    Crimescene WA & Real Scientists

    September 23, 2013 / No Comments

    I am really rather excited about the second week of October this year. Why? Well, the week starts on the 6th of October. And at midnight sharp on the 6th of October, I take over the @realscientists account on Twitter. The @realscientists account is curated/run each week by a scientist, science writer, science artist, science communicator, science illustrator… you get the idea. The aim of the project is to get more information about science, all sorts of science, out to the public. And I am part excited, part terrified, part nervous about taking over tweeting about what I do to do with science for a whole week. If you have…

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    Diverse and need a writing group?

    October 23, 2016

    Where you will find me in October 2018

    October 11, 2018

    Round up 05/01/2013 – 19/01/2013

    January 19, 2013
  • Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013
    Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Events,  IPEd Con 2013,  Journalism,  Political journalism,  Projects,  Science journalism,  Updates

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013 / No Comments

    Recovering mostly. The conference is over. But the organisation part of it isn’t. There are accounts to be finalised and even now, still a lot of emails to answer. So let me digress to answer the most often asked question via email now: Conference proceedings will be posted on the website and you will all be emailed to be told when they get uploaded.  But what else have I been up to? Well, I have had a particularly weird and busy time of it and a lot of it has involved writing. So without further ado, here is the list: I have reviewed:  Amanda Curtin’s Elemental which will end up in…

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    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

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

    January 3, 2014

    Introducing In Conversation With

    April 6, 2015

    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 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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    What do you mean there is a conference in four days' time?

    April 6, 2013

    The Rockstar Freelance Lifestyle

    April 10, 2013

    How to network at an editors' conference

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

    Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits

    January 3, 2013 / 6 Comments

      I discovered Greenwood quite by chance somewhere around 2007. And ever since I have eagerly awaited the next installment of a Phryne Fisher or Corrinna Chapman mystery. You can just imagine how thrilled I was when ABC started airing the TV series of Phryne Fisher last year. Accordingly I was excited to find a new offering – Phryne’s 19th outing Unnatural Habits. I bought it to read on my flight overseas at the end of the year and avoided it till I was in my plane seat. Phryne is much the same, the same devil may care attitude towards social conventions that don’t make any sense, the same thrill…

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    Australian Love Stories

    November 20, 2014

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

    February 7, 2013

    AWW 2013: Amanda Curtin's Inherited

    January 24, 2013
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Projects

    The Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013: Suggested Reading List

    January 3, 2013 / 6 Comments

    So I mentioned to a writing group that I am part of on Facebook that I am trying to do this challenge. And I asked them to suggest titles. Because otherwise I was going to be stuck. And they have come up trumps. Now I am only going to review certain books in certain genres so I can say now that I probably won’t get to review all these but YOU can. If you are part of the challenge, then off you go, pick one and get reviewing! If you suggest any titles I will keep updating this list. Author | Book | Genre | Comment if any Kathryn White…

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

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013

    Marianne de Pierres' Glitter Rose

    February 6, 2014

    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2014
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