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What is a typical day for a journalist?
The typical day for a journalist always varies depending on what your working circumstances are. But here are some ideas.
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Setting goals as a freelance journalist
How do you set goals for your business as a freelance journalist? What sort of goals are best to set? What will move your business and career forward?
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Why I write at 4 am
Marisa Wikramanayake writes about why she chooses to work on her creative writing at four am.
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Gin & Tonic Update #3
The third update on the writing of crime fiction novel Gin & Tonic
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What’s happening in February 2019
One month is nearly over. Here is what is happening with me in the next month. Freelancing course via Writers Victoria If you have not booked yet, book now for 20% off a spot (tickets are $20 to 45 AUD) at the online webinar on freelancing that I am running through Writers’ Victoria on Feb 4. It’s online, you don’t need to get out of bed and its affordable and you may learn some cool new tips and tricks and ideas. Telling Tales at Women In Media Victoria Straight after that on Feb 11, I will be at the Metropolitan Hotel with several other awesome journalists, telling stories about our…
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An update on Gin & Tonic
For those of you who are new and who may not be aware, I am writing a crime novel. This should not really surprise anyone. I love reading crime fiction. But I started writing this story last year. And I was lucky enough to smash out some huge chunks of words during my KSP and Varuna writing fellowship stays. I am hoping the book ends up being this madcap dash through Colombo tropical city humidity and heat with two teenage girls puzzling their way through crimes and the cops chasing behind them, missing jewellery, murder, mayhem and secret bars and annoying aunties and all. A few months ago I started…
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Why I am resurrecting my Patreon account
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 fiction book Gin & Tonic as I write it, start to finish, with two posts per month. The first one went live yesterday and they are scheduled up until mid July with more to come because I have a ton of pages of scribble to type up. For some of you, this is not your thing at all. You want to know what I do via the blog or the newsletter but you are not really otherwise…
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Digital Writers Festival: HyperSpace Hustle
I am part of the Digital Writers Festival this year. Which is immensely exciting for me. The Digital Writers Festival happens all online. I am in a podcast episode on writing and working rights and conditions for writers. Ben Eltham is chairing the podcast and interviewing me and Osman Faruqi and it is all very exciting. The podcast episode drops on October 31st: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/hyperspace-hustle-digital-writers-rights/ Date: October 31, 2018 Time: All day Venue: Wherever thou art. Link: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/hyperspace-hustle-digital-writers-rights/ Cost: Free.
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Where you will find me in October 2018
You will hear my voice everywhere in October.
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The NYWF-ty List
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.
