My own alter ego. I experienced some trauma in 2014 and was 3 years recovering.  Now that I have it’s a just for fun project. Spent 2 years writing a novel and now a year blogging. But it has given me 2 key life lessons. How to survive from a traumatic experience and also how to become a relatively well known and to some degree respected blogger.

I say to some degree respected as some of the points I make are quite edgy and yes that does get me hate mail. I can say my fan mail out weighs my hate mail by a ratio of 20:1. Also when I started my blogging it was nearly 2 months before I got my first fan mail, now I get between 20-30 emails a day to answer and it’s 95% positive.

The views are now into their 10,000s, the first 3 months I managed just under 300.

As I come up to the year anniversary of being a blogger I want to tie it all up a little and define the purpose.

It’s 2  fold. 1. It’s very therapeutic.  The way I was brought into this world, having my own opinion was forbidden. 2. It’s fun and creative.

Art heals the soul.

I grew up in a rather off center commune in society shall we say and having your own say was a no no. I got to the age of 36 and decided, nah this is not for me. Told them and left.

So the family still involved and the commune itself labelled me a ‘backslider’ and I’ve been shunned since.

I took this event as a chance. Something I can and always will do, try make some good out of the bad. Thus Dortju.

I have created this persona out of thin air, almost, a female character in a novel I was reading was called, Dortjuilan. I just made it more masculine. Now this ‘identity’ owns the top of the front page of google if you search for “Dortju”.

The 2 things I took away from this experience is creativity is an end all and be all cure for anything.

2nd becoming a blogger is easy, with patience and perseverance.

To those whom I’ve upset, stop being so narrow minded.

To those whom enjoy, thanks for all of your support.

To be continued…