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My Chicken Satire Story Is Flying
Sometimes a ‘date night’ with your writing produces golden eggs.
Finally! A satire article that didn’t crash and burn before takeoff.
Occasional commercial unviability in my writing is what enables me to write commercially viable content. In other words, I need to keep writing fun or all of it starts to suck.
A few years ago I came up with what I thought was a funny premise for a story: chicken wings are harvested from live chickens instead of dead ones in the same way wool is harvested from sheep.
Chickens finally realize they are being treated unjustly and they rise up to rally for their rights during Superbowl season…in Buffalo, NY…en masse.
Like most of my humor, it was a slightly twisted premise that doesn’t easily find an audience.
Flop. Flop. Floppity flop goes all my satire stories, but every one I write revives my love of writing so I then have the inspiration to pump out stories that make money i.e. ones that people find value in.
That’s how it usually works.
But then today happened.
I wrote this story first about two years ago and it wasn’t quite right so after two more years of writing under my belt, I decided to rewrite it almost…
