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Frequently Asked Questions About Becoming A Freelance Writer:
Marisa Wikramanayake answers a few of the frequently asked questions about being a freelance writer.
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For the confused author/editor: Style sheets vs Style guides
What the hell is a style sheet? Well, in computer lingo, it’s CSS or a cascading style sheet which tells you what everything on every HTML page of your website looks like design wise. It’s supposed to make it more efficient to create and design websites. But that’s not what you mean right? No, it’s not. Say you are an author (fiction, non-fiction, corporate, government, whatever) and you send a document (your precious, your boss’ precious and so on) to an editor. And the editor sends the document back and a few others, one of which is this weird combination of the alphabet and square boxes. That little document is…
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How to write a book: Part 2: And the number one secret for writing a book…
… The Library. Yours at home, the public one in your city/town, the state one, the one at the university several doors down from you, the boxes under the stairs, the geeky flatmate’s comic book collection, the one online via Google Books, the one on your Amazon wish list, the one on your Kindle, the charity book sale, your neighbour’s garage – it doesn’t matter which one really, just whether you use one. Did you see the two writing tricks I just used?
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Freelancing Friday: Five common grammar mistakes
As an editor, I see grammar/spelling/style mistakes and errors all the time in everyone’s work. Everyone’s work. Some of the editing work I do is for the Centre for Policy Development in Australia — they have a journal called Insight for which a lot of policy makers and academics write articles about how to create government policy on all sorts of subjects. What is surprising is that even academics make a ton of mistakes and that most of those mistakes are the same basic ones that other people make. So here are the most common ones and how to avoid them. We all have to deal with written communication so…
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Music Review: Nouvelle Vague's 3
Marisa Wikramanayake reviews Nouvelle Vague's latest album 3 for RTR FM.
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19 Things That Make My Life Easier As A Freelancer
Below is a list of the stuff that I use that genuinely makes my life easier as a freelancer. This is for anyone wanting to become a freelancer who wants an idea of what’s involved in terms of stuff you need when you write, edit or design in Australia. The first half is software, the second is stationery and electronic equipment. I may add to this as I go on, please let me know if it’s helpful or not. I will update this post with links soon. WordPress I use WordPress to run the weblog and the website and I like having more control over the look because I am…
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Things You Should Know About Being A Writer: Part 1:
Marisa Wikramanayake starts a list of things every writer needs to know but isn't always told and starts posting them in sets of five points or tips each. This is the first post with the first five tips on writing, reading, experiencing, expression and practice.
