DAVID MORRISON:
Biography
I have to thank a gentleman named Mike
Bosson that you’re reading this. Many years ago in
my schooldays, he was my English teacher.
I loved to write wildly imaginative stories as a youngster,
enjoying the creative process as much then as I do now.
Mike (or rather, Mr. Bosson) always seemed to appreciate
my work, constantly encouraging me to keep writing and often
suggesting freelance writer as a career option I may wish
to consider upon leaving school. Preferring rock star, I
nonetheless promised him I would continue writing as the
time dawned to enter the scary world of work and responsible
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I have kept that promise. Albeit largely on a part-time basis until leaving my music industry position of 15 years to write full-time from August 1st, 2022, I have been writing professionally for over two decades. Until becoming a full-time writer my work life largely revolved around the music industry in many different capacities, including in music stores, as a concert promoter, DJ, radio presenter, and - as you might expect - music journalist. It was natural that at some point I would write about music, and so it has been with hundreds of reviews, concert previews, interview features, and publicity materials for various publications, websites, record labels, artists, and bands.
(Please see the Client
Portfolio and Samples pages for
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It was always my goal, however, to work as a freelance writer, challenging myself by
covering as wide a range of material as possible. To that end, covering a broad spectrum of subject matter, my work has been
published somewhere, at least monthly, since I began. |
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I just love writing, so it‘s just
as well I decided to become a freelance writer, eh? I get
lost in it, paying a perfectionist’s attention to detail
in how every sentence sounds, looks and feels, careful to select
exactly the right words to express what needs to be. Regardless
of the dryness of a commissioned topic, I write with passion and
have enough confidence in my ability to tackle most any subject.
Consequently, I will consider any offer
or project that requires creation of the written word, whether
in traditional print media or for the Internet.
(Please see the Services
page for further details.)
I was born and raised in Birmingham,
England, moving to Brighton
on the south coast in 1987. After 19½ years in that great
town, in 2006 my wife Susan and I moved to live in Nanaimo
on Vancouver
Island in her native Canada. It is here
in Nanaimo that I have set myself up as a freelance writer. |
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It was in Brighton
that my writing started in earnest, as a contributor of
principally music-oriented content to various local and
London-based publications. I also worked as an Internet
Copywriter at an independent search engine optimization
and Internet marketing company for fifteen months prior to moving
to Canada, producing keyword-rich content for websites across
a broad spectrum of markets. |
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(Internet copywriting is just one of
the services I am offering my clients as a freelance writer. Please
see the Services page for further
information.)
In signing off, I am delighted to report that after losing contact
for over forty years, Mike Bosson and I are back in touch! Much like
myself, he has been on many adventures in the intervening period,
including running a magnificent stately home in England and a
school in the Canary Islands. It will be fun to catch up and...
hmmm... maybe I should write his biography? |
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