Wednesday Whys - How to Choose Chicken Eggs for Hatching

I seem to be on a science-y kick lately with my article writing. It's kind of weird because in school I never really liked science. But I always did pretty good in my science classes, so I guess it makes sense if you look at it that way. Today's Wednesday Why features the article "How to Choose Chicken Eggs for Hatching."

On Sunday, I was hyper-productive. (On a weekend! That's even crazier!) I researched, wrote, edited, and published an article. All in one day. Usually it takes me about two days per article, but I was in the zone. Also, I was writing about chickens and if you know me, you know I'm kind of obsessed with chickens.

I started out by just doing some general chicken research. I knew I wanted to write about chickens, but I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to write about them. I think it was also inspired by the fact that in the spring my parents plan on raising chickens. (Yes, I will be there visiting them all the time. I've never known anyone who has actually owned chickens before. I'm so excited!) I had raising chickens on the brain.

I ended up reading a lot about incubating eggs and was going to write about that, but when I started to specifically researching that, I learned that there was actually a lot that went into just choosing the eggs. Who knew? You have to look at the parent chickens, the egg size and shape, and all sorts of things. And I thought to myself, "Hmm, this could be an article all on it's own. And then I could write about incubating them. And then caring for the baby chicks. And then caring for the adults." And suddenly I had four articles I could write. That is definitely a good thing, because sometimes I struggle coming up with ideas, but now I have something to work on while I think about new topics.

The article itself was pretty easy to write. I took tons of notes in an organized manner (That never happens! Go me!) and it wasn't really a complicated topic, so I had no trouble turning my notes into a nice article. And again, it was very informative to me and that always makes writing more interesting.

This week I will be concentrating on the rest of the chicken articles and my screenplay, which I had a major breakthrough on Sunday night at 2 AM when I couldn't sleep and instead wrote for an hour. Sunday was clearly a good writing day for me. Perhaps I should work on weekends more often...