Hi everyone, Hermione Banger here.
I’m finally taking the big leap from being hermit-farmer comfortably enjoying my solitude, books, and nature like a contented hobbit, to going out onto the wilds of the internets to share my thoughts, experience and writing.
GULP.
I’m generally an introvert, and pretty private. Doing this, starting a blog and a YouTube channel, does not feel easy or comfortable for me. I’m sure I’m going to meet my fair share of trolls and orcs and ogres out here, and being a woman on the internet with an opinion usually doesn’t bode well.
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.
You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet,
there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.
That being said, we can’t stay comfortable all our lives. We can’t stay holed up in our hobbit holes or locked away in our towers. The things we learn there, in solitude and communion with nature and writers of old, are lost if they are not shared. As a writer, I cannot stay in solitude, I have to put my work and my thoughts out there.
So here goes.
Wish me luck!
