Glenn Hefley

my pen a spider leg sets hooks and spin weaving meaning from strands and drops of dew hanging like notes between rose branches and thorns a tactile salad a caution to touch like French kissing sarcasm #vss365 #spider

I have been going through Cognitive Bias, using them as writing prompts to find new ways of expressing characters and improving their ‘voice’. During that exercise I wondered about Cognitive Distortions and if they were similar. Turns out, not really. These are wonderful traits and challenges, however. And they recognizable enough to use without much more than a good tease. I’ll try to work up a…

This sweet love that has fallen into the wrong hands, will only see the glow worm of a word dawn before bibliophiles and {…} slash it down to a zero score. #vss365 #word

the effervescent foam of champagne, a frizzy applause juxtaposed to the relaxed sigh of ocean foam at the pointthe wave exhausts itself on the shore beside your thigh. #vss365 #foam

Fixing the JavaScript typeof operator

Perfect way to deal with this. Not much of a coder, but I know plain and simple when I see it.

Most of the time I'm exploring the topic of Emotional Connection, it is for writing fiction, and making that connection with the reader -- a connection which will allow the reader to slip into immersion with the story -- what those in Psychology call Narr

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People on the road or on the street understand the value of names, and more precisely, the value of remembered names. Whether by instinct, social education, or through research like myself, there is a knowledge base both Wide and Deep focused on being remembered, for those on the edge of the curb. (more…)

US Retail Management Kills Ecomony

If you search Google for — how much is lost due to theft from retailers per year you will get a list of articles with headlines that say, retailers loose $44billion a year to theft — which isn’t true. In fact, that’s not even close.

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Books live lives, touch lives, they tether lives to the world. People who read your books are — sick in bed on sunny days — or sad because he’s out of town — or flying across oceans in cramped spaces — or anxious in the waiting room, eager to hear their daughter’s first cries or in a hospice bed being read to, listening, and for their last few minutes of life they are living again through your…

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…read an article on Kelly (General) — Trump’s aide. What it told me is we basically have a President who has to have his news chewed for him, or he shits his pants.