Ask the Author: Cody Leet
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Cody Leet
Have you ever lost a trinket or heirloom? I have an idea for a story from the perspective of the item, where it is lost and everyone who finds it has some kind of event involving it, until it moves on to the next person. Maybe it's cursed, or maybe it helps people move on with their lives.
Cody Leet
Having no bounds. I used to be a video game developer, and what you can achieve is limited by the state of the technology. In writing, there are no limits. If you can dream it up, it can exist.
Cody Leet
I am developing the plot for the sequel to Spheria.
Cody Leet
The reviewers of Spheria have said it makes them think, even after they have finished it. Other than providing an enjoyable ride, that is my goal, and what inspires me. It's picking some theme that we either don't understand or have a lot to learn and exploring what might become of that.
Cody Leet
Every piece of advice I get on writing says, "write every day." Maybe I am wrong on this, but I don't work that way. I need to give ideas and concepts time to form and gel. I'm not a huge believer in the stream of consciousness style. I prefer to build a story as if it's a puzzle and I am trying to fit the pieces together. Once I complete the puzzle, then I write. Then it's accelerated... write as much as time permits.
Now I am not saying you should follow this style, we are all different. But this is what works for me.
Now I am not saying you should follow this style, we are all different. But this is what works for me.
Cody Leet
I am very much a plotter, so I find writer's block comes when I am developing the plot. The plot to Spheria took me 2 years to complete, since I had a couple contradictions in there I had to work out, and was going to school at the same time. Since I front load my process, the actual writing was "block free." I just sit down, read my outline for the chapter, then spend about a half hour visualizing it as if I was watching a movie. Then I write what I saw in my mind.
Cody Leet
After having watched movies such as the Matrix and reading some scientific theories about how we might be inside a simulation, and if there is a way to actually test for this, I began thinking, "what if we were the ones running a simulation?" What if I could tell a story about the beings living in that simulation and how they perceived the interactions from what is beyond - i.e. us humans. So the analogy to us being in a simulation is fascinating and something I wanted to explore.
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