Ask the Author: Cody Sisco
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Cody Sisco
Start writing and keep writing. Share your writing, make writer friends, and prepare for a bumpy ride. Also remember that writers are custodians of the humanities and it’s a noble calling, so take some pride in upholding that tradition.
Cody Sisco
I love bringing characters and stories to life. Writing fiction is really the closest thing to magic we have in the real world. Images and voices in my head are repeated and reshaped until they take the form of written words. Then, across time and space, the stories I've dreamed up are replicated in readers' minds and take on a life of their own in readers' imaginations. I'm basically a wizard! How effing cool is that??????
Cody Sisco
A very bizarre letter arrived one day, which described an eviction notice for two people who bore exactly the same names as my sister and myself. I had lived with my sister in Oakland, California for a year during college. This letter arrived in my mailbox five years later out of the blue, indicating that Cody and Jessica Sisco were to leave their apartment somewhere in Oregon within 30 days. Who were these people? Were we related? How did their letter find me? Was it a message from an alternate history where my sister and I had been raised in Oregon??? I wish I'd looked into it further. Then again, I'm happy not to know.
Cody Sisco
My cousin struggled with schizophrenia for years and died tragically while institutionalized. Several friends from childhood developed personality disorders in their teens or became addicted to drugs. I struggled with depression in my late teens and early 20s. It seems like many young people in my generation face uphill odds to simply lead normal lives. I wanted to show that struggle through my writing.
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