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Three important stories I wrote in 2021 as a freelance journalist
Three stories I wrote in 2021 as a freelance journalist and why they were important.
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How much I made in 2021 as a freelancer
How much I made in 2021 as a freelancer in Australia and why it is important to be transparent about it.
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My goals for 2022: making my freelancing work better for me
Marisa Wikramanayake talks through what her goals for 2022 are and how she is planning to achieve them.
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How to successfully set goals and plan for 2022
Marisa Wikramanayake writes about how to plan for 2022 and set goals as a freelancer.
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My 2021 year in review – amazing goals success or failure?
The 2021 year in review - were all the goals met and hit and what of COVID-19? Marisa Wikramanayake looks back at her work over the year.
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Elizabeth Gilbert on the drive to keep creating
Last week I shared Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED Talk on the creative genius and the expectations we place on people. A few years after that talk, she gave another one – this time it was about how to navigate the vagaries of creative work – not just thinking about creativity and genius but also how to get back into a productive state where you can not only shield yourself from expectations and fears but also carry on with your work and reconcile both failure and success. And she makes a good point about what home is – she asks what one loves more than one loves oneself or one’s ego and…
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Why you should love your writers more (or pay us more)
Note: I wrote this piece after seeing this image sometime in December 2014 on Facebook. I was reminded of it recently and thought I would repost it here: [aesop_parallax img=”http://marisa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/10689919_10153438607982501_2808857729860272201_n.jpg” parallaxbg=”on” captionposition=”bottom-left” lightbox=”on” floater=”off” floaterposition=”left” floaterdirection=”up”] There are career paths and structures that support various other occupations but some of us don’t get that stability when doctors, lawyers, accountants etc can. And you can sell a million books and still make less than $10,000 per year because you get a small percentage of each sale as royalties. Every writer or artist or anyone in a similar occupation that has to deal with this weird pay inequality gap type thing…
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Writing Meme: Write Anything
I’s not a Monday but I am bored. Here you go – three questions to answer: 1. List one of your writing goals for the upcoming month and how likely you are to accomplish it. Write a lot of science network wa articles? Accomplishing it is easy as far as going through my feed reader and sending off potential ideas to my editor, getting the ok and then contacting the people involved. Then I freak out about interviewing them, interview them and then I freak out about writing the articles. My editor gets them though. 2. What genre or subject you would like to write about that you aren’t currently?…
