Hey there, my wonderful, crazy subscribers.
Have I been busy? A little.
Have I been neglecting you guys? A little.
Am I sorry? Yeah.. Nah… yeah. I will apologise. I’m pretty sure I did apologise already. (This will make sense, trust me)
Are you crazy? Never trust someone that says trust me. Have I taught you nothing? Oh, wait. Well, trust me, I got some learnings to impart.
So what have I been doing?
I completed the blog, 30 Day Cold Shower Challenge on Zirkels.com https://zirkels.com/blog/cold-shower
Wrote a little controversial piece on my blog Deso Opinions (for the non tech minded) Answering a question from a DeSo OG. Clay Oglesby. Have We been Rugged? https://zirkels.com/blog/decentralisedsocial
Continued on with some Caravan Life articles on https://zirkels.com/blog/caravanlife We survived a storm and I was reminded how much I don’t like crows, but am a fan of Edgar Allan Poe.
Started a blog on Mental Health Awareness and added two articles. One on OverThinking, and a different way of looking at it. The other on Imposter Syndrome. https://zirkels.com/blog/mentalhealth Rules of Netiquette and Six Things Mentally Strong People Do - Apparently are both on there as well.
I republished The Day I Died with more pictures (nothing gross) https://zirkels.com/a/the-day-i-died
An article on some writing advice. https://zirkels.com/a/writing-is-hard-here-are-some-tips
I also started a blog called “Ask JD” (https://zirkels.com/a/ask-jd-anything) where you can ask anything at all. You post the question on the page. With questions being launched on Zirkels (see article linked below), I thought, why not. I like to challenge myself and my writing. Then I will write an article on it. It could be a factual article after doing some research. It could be me going down some rabbit holes and appearing weeks later with some bizarre shit. It could be me going on one of my trademark tangents (IYKYK). It could be a straight-up crazy old man rant. But, it will be authentic, uncensored and possibly funny.
You can even ask a question specifying wrong answers only.
So hit me up by asking a question on this blog. This could be fun. This could be dangerous. This could be a complete flop.
https://zirkels.com/a/introducing-questions-on-zirkels
I also started the blog for my creative work. Putting up the collection from Do You Dare? https://zirkels.com/blog/jdarmstrong-doyoudare. I’ve also started “Double Dare!” With the first story “Hotel California” available for coin holders of 1 JDA CC to read for free. Do You Dare OG NFT holders will be getting their copy in the coming days. I am starting the second short story this weekend, Keegan permitting, lol
All of this had me being referred to as a prolific writer more than once during the week. What’s funny, is that I didn’t feel like I was doing enough. That’s when I also found out that out of the top 8 new articles on Zirkels, 6 were mine. So I have eased off just a little bit. lol.
What’s coming up?
Aside form the next short story, I have a few articles to publish in the coming days. One is about…. apologies. How to say sorry. When is it too late to say sorry? When is an apology not an apology. I’ll be highlighting a recent event on DeSo that was a bit of a drama. I’ve waited so as not to appear like I’m feeding the drama. As that’s not what this is about. Names will be blacked out, but IYKYK. If you know, you know. This is about the trend of appearing to apologise without saying the words “I’m sorry”.
Another one is on DAODAO.
Then I’ll be doing a review on Zirkels
An article on NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
Working on a collaborative podcast with the TTDT crew. That’s Tag Team Dream Team
Planning on my own podcast. I was thinking of calling it Talk About Trauma. I think though, that will just be a segment under the podcast as I’ve come across some other topics that I feel I just have to address. One such topic caused a 12 minute rant from yours truly. A few of you have heard some rants, meandering thinking out loud, and journey’s down rabbit holes. This one was an entirely new level. This could be fun.
That should keep me occupied for a bit. Not out of trouble though, so jump on Ask JD Anything, and ask me anything. lol. Help me, to help you, to help me stay out of trouble.
Also, if anyone wants to collaborate on an article, or would like to piggy back off one of my blogs, hit me up, I’m happy to invite people to write on my blogs. Happy to read over, edit, give advice on anyone articles. One of the other top writers on Zirkles gets me to go over his articles before posting. Just having that extra set of eyes before releasing it into the wild is helpful.
Stay safe weirdo’s.
J.D. Armstrong