Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • 365/333 The Oliver Standard Visible Writer No 3 by Rachel via Flickr
    Updates,  Writing

    Do you want a DWoA writing group?

    June 21, 2016 / No Comments

    I want to talk about writing groups today. As you may or may not already be aware, I do attend a regular writing session/group with two friends of mine every Friday. We sit in a bar, I write my book, they write their PhD theses and come four or five pm we have beer.

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    27 ways to support diverse writers

    May 20, 2016 / 1 Comment

    I had this thought one day. I should qualify that it was between the hours of midnight and four am, generally not a great time for coming up with new ideas for me but a good time to work on ideas I already have. I thought about how I didn’t always see a lot of non-POC authors discuss, read, review POC authors’ works or interview them despite doing so for various non-POC authors regularly on their blogs. There are some authors who don’t do that sort of thing on their blogs at all for anyone else’s work and that’s fine and up to them but there are some that do…

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