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  • Norwich Street Art Warning by MarkHeyBo on Flickr
    Blog,  News

    Why I am resurrecting my Patreon account

    / January 14, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Some of you may have already known this via social media or the mailing list. I have restarted my Patreon account. For $1 per month you can read the draft of my crime…

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  • Things You Have Wanted to Know About Sensitivity Reading and Were Too Afraid To Ask – Continuum Panel

    / June 10, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Jess Flint, Creatrix Tiara, Sangeetha Thanapal and I will be discussing why it is important to use a sensitivity reader and why it is important to respect readers of your work and other groups and…

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  • The Inequality of Magic – Continuum Panel

    / June 10, 2018 / 0 Comments

    We will be chatting about why there are weird gender based tropes around how magic is used in fantasy fiction stories. Come see me, Darren / Lexie, Dorian Manticore, Gillian Polack, and Jane Routley discuss the…

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  • The Romance of Structure – Continuum Panel

    / June 10, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Come see me chat about structure issues when writing romance fiction with Jane Routley, Freya Marske, Carolyn Denman, and Thalia Kalkipsakis. This is the third Continuum panel that I will be on and I will be also…

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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 / 0 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…

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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 / 0 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…

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  • KSP cat by Ashleigh Hardcastle via KSP Writers Centre
    Blog,  Writing

    Day 2: A cat is here!

    / May 30, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Day 2 and I woke up joyful today. Joyful because it was such a wonderful thought that I could write and everyone was going to be mindful of that. That no one would…

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  • Blog,  Freelancing,  Journalism,  Writing

    Frequently Asked Questions About Becoming A Freelance Writer:

    / January 18, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake answers a few of the frequently asked questions about being a freelance writer.

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  • Blog,  Freelancing,  IPEd 2017,  Writing

    Mentoring writers as an editor and writer

    / September 15, 2017 / 1 Comment

    This blog post is intended to be a summary and cheat sheet on my part of the mentoring panel on 15 Sept 2017 at the IPEd 2017 Conference in Brisbane. Proceedings will be…

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  • Mentoring and mentorships for writers
    Freelancing

    9 unexpected helpful lessons learnt as a freelance writer in 2016

    / January 27, 2017 / 0 Comments

    I think it is important to reflect on what lessons you have learnt so far from time to time especially when it comes to the business side of being a freelance writer. I…

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