The Damage Done: An Interview with J.C. Todd by Curtis Smith
responsibility can be a restraint that gives shape to your art, but it also can be a release, enlarging perception, illuminating what had been unseen.
responsibility can be a restraint that gives shape to your art, but it also can be a release, enlarging perception, illuminating what had been unseen.
I think we can borrow a lot from the semiotics and nuances of film. The tension created by the act of interpretation is a cinematic exercise.
As I was writing, I just kept thinking that we need to break and remake the whole way all this stuff works.
As I was writing, I just kept thinking that we need to break and remake the whole way all this stuff works.
I also have learned a great deal from other writers, whether from reading their work or receiving (generous) feedback.
True crime is very much a part of the larger story of my medical trauma.
When I sit down to write, I feel my responsibility is to tell the truth, to try not to flinch, and to consider the ways in which my work might affect readers of all kinds.
Parkland happened, and we knew we couldn’t stay silent any longer.
Can we speak for anyone else? Are writers only ever speaking for themselves? Always never speaking? Always always speaking?
“Seeing the evolution of Blood Meridian just reminds me of the value of the process: which involves drafting and revising, tinkering and experimenting, and for most writers, and certainly me, an unhurried attitude towards creative work.”