Hi, I'm David Brewster - welcome to my website and blog. I'm a freelance writer, ghostwriter and copywriter able to assist you with your writing needs, whether for print or the web. Anything from a brochure to a book. I bring a strong background in business to my work. I'm based in Melbourne, Australia. Check the Services page for more details. Otherwise, please enjoy reading my articles. And please subscribe by RSS or email to receive future articles as they are published.
You know that uncomfortable sagging feeling you get when you leave for school camp knowing you’ve left something behind – you just don’t know what? It’s horrible the way the hunch sits in your gut like too much cake until, as you open your bag at the other end, the realisation hits: it was the swimming costume! Or your toothbrush. Or, worst of all, the iPod.
I’ve been getting that feeling myself lately, only it hasn’t been about a holiday. My nagging discomfort has been about Christmas.
I’m not troubled by that feeling of “didn’t we just do this?”. I’m used to that, though I admit it feels weird when even teenagers like yourselves comment that Christmas decorations are appearing earlier and earlier. Nor am I worried about making an empty commitment to get the cards done early this time. You’ve heard all that before. I know you won’t be at all surprised when we’re posting them just before New Year.
No, this year’s nagging feeling has been different. I just couldn’t pin it down … until this morning, when I saw a thought-provoking little video called ‘The Story of Stuff‘. Like that empty corner of the backpack where the undies were supposed to be, this video crystallized my discomfort in its opening few minutes. [click to continue…]
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I had no idea.
20 years ago I came out of university and moved into a job. I spent the next ten years as an employee. Earned my wage. Spent my wage. Simple.
About ten years ago I got myself out of that world and set myself up in my own little business. As a self-employed management consultant, there have been financial ups and downs but by and large I reckon we’ve come out on top. And certainly the benefits of working for myself have outweighed being ‘tied to The Man’.
In the last couple of years I’ve tweaked the direction of my business to include a greater proportion of what I love to do most: writing. I do corporate writing mostly, or at least what you might call ‘commercial’ writing, and while it doesn’t pay as well as a lot of consulting work, it is comfortable enough.
As I’ve written more and more, I’ve also started spreading my creative wings, writing and pitching feature articles, profiles, opinion pieces and the like. In doing so I’ve entered the world of what we can broadly call the ‘creatives’ and discovered that … I had no idea. [click to continue…]
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I've been working in business, one way or another, for the last 20 years, and writing for the last ten. My main interest now is to get messages across - yours and mine - in a readable and approachable fashion. 
