Marisa Wikramanayake

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    Blog,  Freelancing,  Journalism

    Setting goals as a freelance journalist

    October 11, 2019 / No Comments

    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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  • Freelancing,  Writing

    Freelance writing plans for 2017

    January 6, 2017 / No Comments

      If you have read the post on how my freelance writing went this past year, you would see that I got quite a bit lucky but also found a lot of room for improvement. The thing is, you can’t tell me that I need to improve on something because then I go get pen and paper and start planning to become better at whatever said sucky thing is. And I kind of go overboard. I would like to share this process with you so you can see how damn stupid my brain is at times and smart at other times. As my sister says “We don’t know how someone…

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  • Updates

    2013's very odd resolution list

    January 4, 2013 / 2 Comments

    This being the start of 2013, of course everyone is talking about New Year Resolutions. In fact, come December 1st everyone starts ruminating on this topic. And then of course there is a lot of angst over what one hasn’t done yet and that horrible nagging feeling that somehow you are running out of time to do X, Y and Z and therefore be happy. So in the interests of preserving some sanity here, because let’s be honest, me being me, I have very little sanity or so people tell me, let’s do this differently. What was 2012 like? Well, lets see. It was unexpectedly social at points – in…

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