Hello and welcome to the Story Grid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer.

I'm your host Tim Graal and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

Joining me soon is Sean Coyne. He's the creator of Story Grid and the author of the book Story Grid, and he's an editor with 25 plus years

experience, and he's helping me avoid all the common landmines that writers go through

early on. In this episode, we talk about the nuances of learning and becoming a better writer.

We talk about lots of different ways that you can become a better

writer, the types of deliberate practice you can do, and we even dive into the idea of chicken

sexing. So you're really going to enjoy this episode. It's a lot of fun, and it will help you

better practice your art of writing. So let's jump in and get started. So Sean, I was

hanging out with a friend of mine last week and she was telling me about this sexing chickens thing.

Have you ever heard of this? No. Okay. So I'm a little scared too to hear that. No, no, it's, it's not actual,

it's telling the difference between males and females. Okay. Okay. So inside of like the major

chicken manufacturer plants or whatever, it's really expensive for them because they only want female chickens

because they lay the eggs and they, you know, provide the meat and all that.

So all the money, space, and time they put into raising male chickens is completely wasted.

But the problem is there is no way to look at a baby chicken and be able to tell like from the earliest stage

whether it's a boy or a girl and there's just no way to do there's no conscience way to look at it and like

look at a checklist or like a diagram and be like okay that's a boy that's a girl and so there's

these people that can do it and and they do it really fast.

They like pick one up.

I think they actually use, because I had read about this long time ago, they actually

use two hands, and they grab one, and they look at it.

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