What can writers learn from the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders show?
"Their struggles are ours..."
Welcome to our weekend conversation!
Confession: I have become hooked on the Netflix program America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.
You see, a few weeks back I was looking for a show to get my mind off my current work-in-progress. When you’re deep inside a writing project, as most of you know, it can feel like every single thing in the world is grist for that project. Every sentence you read, conversation you have, scent you smell, sound you hear, dream you have, all clamor for space in the manuscript.
In That Crafty Feeling from a 2008 issue of The Believer, Zadie Smith calls this experience The Middle of the Novel.