Facebook – where I share news stories, articles from other blogs, and various and sundry miscellany that happens to catch my eye. It’s stuff you won’t see here! Well, mostly.
Instagram – where I show you my Life in Motion and share quotes and such. The widget only shows my last three photographs – don’t you want to see them all?
Twitter – where you can see my thoughts in 140 characters or less. Also, funny retweets.
Facebook – where I share news stories, articles from other blogs, and various and sundry miscellany that happens to catch my eye. It’s stuff you won’t see here! Well, mostly.
Instagram – where I show you my Life in Motion and share quotes and such. The widget only shows my last three photographs – don’t you want to see them all?
Twitter – where you can see my thoughts in 140 characters or less. Also, funny retweets.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be participating in WordPress’ Blogging 201.
In addition to my normal posts, you’ll most likely see a few “extra” posts related to course assignments.
This is the first of those posts.
They say sharing your goals with others helps you achieve them.
By the end of the course I hope to
1. Grow a more connected audience. By that I mean I don’t just want more followers or likes – although to be honest, those are nice. I want to have more people commentating and contributing to a conversation.
2. Grow my social media following. Although I have a Facebook page for my site and encourage others to follow me on Instagram / Twitter, not many do.
3. Finish developing features for each day of the week. Having such a schedule will allow me to work ahead on my posts, make my blog appealing to a wider audience, and may help others develop their own blog.
In my wildest dreams, I would have between twenty and fifty consistent readers who comment on my work and share it with others via their own blogs or other social media.
Thanks for the understanding.
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Facebook – where I share news stories, articles from other blogs, and various and sundry miscellany that happens to catch my eye. It’s stuff you won’t see here! Well, mostly.
Instagram – where I show you my Life in Motion and share quotes and such. The widget only shows my last three photographs – don’t you want to see them all?
Twitter – where you can see my thoughts in 140 characters or less. Also, funny retweets.
Philosophy, Theology, Literature, and Other Things Human Beings Do Well
Not for the intellectually faint of heart.
But the hosts are funny, and they plug Dante.
Don’t forget to follow me on:
Facebook – where I share news stories, articles from other blogs, and various and sundry miscellany that happens to catch my eye. It’s stuff you won’t see here! Well, mostly.
Instagram – where I show you my Life in Motion and share quotes and such. The widget only shows my last three photographs – don’t you want to see them all?
Twitter – where you can see my thoughts in 140 characters or less. Also, funny retweets.
It should come as no surprise: I enjoy trivia shows.
As Calvin once said,
I have a command of thoroughly useless information.
As of today – June 15, 2015 – my favorite trivia shows include
Jeopardy!
Every year I take the online test.
Every year I’m disappointed.
They always ask about pop culture and sports.
Two categories I care/know little to nothing about.
Who is Jay of Running In My Head?
500 Questions
Like Jeopardy!, I do really well on this at home.
However, I believe I’m smarter than most of their contestants.
Then again, that’s what most people probably think.
It’s always different when you play for real.
Celebrity Name Game
Craig Ferguson is hilarious.
K watches it without getting mad at me.
It helps me with those pesky pop culture Jeopardy! questions.
 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
When Regis Philbin hosted, Millionaire challenged Jeopardy! for my top spot.
Namely, I liked the idea of being tested on my own knowledge.
Those Jeopardy! buzzers can be brutal.
Well, they were in Scholastic Bowl.
I assume it’s the same on national TV.
One hallmark of the original Millionaire was the lifeline.
Contestants were given three:
Phone a Friend – call someone who may or may not know the answer.
Ask the Audience – ask the audience what they think (so long as you don’t live in Russia).
50/50 – remove two incorrect answers.
I always hated when contestants used a lifeline. I viewed it as weakness. However, they were actually on the show. I haven’t. Maybe they know something I don’t. Since we’re talking about trivia shows, it obvious they do.
I’m calling you, my readers, because the blog is struggling. At least, I think it’s struggling.
Don’t let the total number of followers fool you. I was cursed with being Freshly Pressed two months after my first blog post. I didn’t know what I was doing, and I lost followers.
I also received an extraordinarily large numbers of spam followers. I’ve spent the last year and a half trying to build it back up by taking the Blogging U courses, and I’ve gained a few regular readers.
If I’m interpreting my statistics correctly, each new blog post gets around 50 views in its first month. That’s not too bad. What worries me is that Running In My Head isn’t growing.
Like actors on the stage, sometimes I need a bit of prompting.
Feed me your favorite word, a vivid scene, an unlikely pairing. A piece of dialog, an object, a potent verb. I’ll write them on slips of paper and put them in my tea tin of ideas.*
I’ve also linked this form to the home screen menus.
Feel free to drop in any thing at any time!
Don’t forget to follow me on:
Facebook – where I share news stories, articles from other blogs, and various and sundry miscellany that happens to catch my eye. It’s stuff you won’t see here! Well, mostly.
Instagram – where I show you my Life in Motion and share quotes and such. The widget only shows my last three photographs – don’t you want to see them all?
Twitter – where you can see my thoughts in 140 characters or less. Also, funny retweets.
Running In My Head 