diff --git a/.rubocop.yml b/.rubocop.yml
index 597ee1d..f214d03 100644
--- a/.rubocop.yml
+++ b/.rubocop.yml
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ Metrics/AbcSize:
 Metrics/ClassLength:
   Exclude:
     - app/controllers/candidate_controller.rb
+    - test/**/*
 
 Metrics/LineLength:
   Max: 110
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/live-coder.js.erb b/app/assets/javascripts/live-coder.js.erb
index 360b996..0847e6e 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/live-coder.js.erb
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/live-coder.js.erb
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ function indentSelection(e){
 }
 
 function loadLiveCoders(){
-  $.each($('.answer-sec.live_code-type'), function(index, elem){
+  $.each($('.answer-sec.live_code-type, .answer-sec.live_code_text-type'), function(index, elem){
     var qid = $(elem).data('qid');
     $(elem).find("[data-id='live-coder-answer']").load("/live-coder-entry/" + qid, function(){
       $(elem).find('.js-error').addClass('hidden');
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ $(function(){
   // wait a half second before updating results
   // restart the timer if they resume typing
   $('html').on('keyup', '.code-input textarea', function(){
-    var elem = $(this).closest('.answer-sec.live_code-type');
+    var elem = $(this).closest('.answer-sec.live_code-type, .answer-sec.live_code_text-type');
     if (timer) { clearTimeout(timer); }
     timer = setTimeout(updateResults(elem), 500);
   });
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/summary-edit.js b/app/assets/javascripts/summary-edit.js
index 8948a99..a70fcb5 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/summary-edit.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/summary-edit.js
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ $('.answer-sec')
   .on('click', '.button-save', saveClickHandler);
 
   // Dynamically load in coders
-$.each($('.answer-sec.live-coder-type'), function(index, elem){
+$.each($('.answer-sec.live_code-type, .answer-sec.live_code_text-type'), function(index, elem){
   var qid = $(elem).data('qid');
   $(elem).find("[data-id='live-coder-answer']").load("/live-coder-entry/" + qid, function(){
     $(elem).find('.js-error').addClass('hidden');
diff --git a/app/controllers/candidate_controller.rb b/app/controllers/candidate_controller.rb
index 344c663..59d1e77 100644
--- a/app/controllers/candidate_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/candidate_controller.rb
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class CandidateController < ApplicationController
     prep_question params[:question_id]
     prep_instance_answer @question
     prep_answer params[:question_id]
-    render layout: false
+    render @question.input_type, layout: false
   end
 
   def summary
@@ -95,8 +95,13 @@ class CandidateController < ApplicationController
 
     def answer_params
       params.require(:answer).permit(
-        :question_id, :answer_id,
-        :radio, :text, checkbox: [], live_code: [:later, :html, :css, :js]
+        :question_id,
+        :answer_id,
+        :radio,
+        :text,
+        checkbox: [],
+        live_code: [:later, :html, :css, :js],
+        live_code_text: [:later, :html, :css, :js, :text]
       )
     end
 
@@ -148,4 +153,11 @@ class CandidateController < ApplicationController
                      submitted: params.key?(:submit))
       route_answer
     end
+
+    def process_live_code_text
+      @answer.update(answer: answer_params[:live_code_text].to_h,
+                     saved: params.key?(:save),
+                     submitted: params.key?(:submit))
+      route_answer
+    end
 end
diff --git a/app/validators/answer_format_validator.rb b/app/validators/answer_format_validator.rb
index 1cbcfea..4a46672 100644
--- a/app/validators/answer_format_validator.rb
+++ b/app/validators/answer_format_validator.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class AnswerFormatValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator
       end
 
       if clean_val.length > 1000
-        record.errors[attribute] << (options[:message] || "The character limit for a textarea answer is 1000")
+        record.errors[attribute] << (options[:message] || "The character limit for this answer is 1000.")
       end
     end
 
@@ -33,11 +33,40 @@ class AnswerFormatValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator
     def live_code record, attribute, value
       return unless value.nil? || value.values.join.blank?
 
-      msg = if value.present? && value.keys.count == 1
-              "Please check that you will come back to complete the code example."
-            else
-              "You must write code in one of the above textareas to progress."
-            end
-      record.errors[attribute] << (options[:message] || msg)
+      record.errors[attribute] << (options[:message] || live_code_error_message(value))
+    end
+
+    def live_code_text record, attribute, value
+      return if value.present? && live_code_text_value_check(value)
+
+      record.errors[attribute] << (options[:message] || live_code_text_error_message(value))
+    end
+
+    #################################
+
+    def live_code_text_error_message value
+      return 'You must write code in one of the above textareas to progress.' if value.nil?
+
+      code_present = value.values_at(:html, :css, :js).join.present?
+      reason_present = value[:text].present?
+      later_present = value.keys.count == 1
+      return 'Please check that you will come back to complete the code example.' if later_present
+      return 'You must write code in one of the above textareas to progress.' unless code_present
+      return 'You must provide an answer in the reason field.' unless reason_present
+    end
+
+    def live_code_error_message value
+      if value.present? && value.keys.count == 1
+        return "Please check that you will come back to complete the code example."
+      end
+      "You must write code in one of the above textareas to progress."
+    end
+
+    def live_code_text_value_check value
+      later_present = value[:later].present? && value.keys.count == 1
+      code_present = value.values_at(:html, :css, :js).join.present?
+      reason_present = value[:text].present?
+
+      later_present || (code_present && reason_present)
     end
 end
diff --git a/app/views/candidate/_live_code_text.html.erb b/app/views/candidate/_live_code_text.html.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..11d5458
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/candidate/_live_code_text.html.erb
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<%= render partial: "candidate/live_code", locals: {question: question, form: form} %>
diff --git a/app/views/candidate/live_coder.html.erb b/app/views/candidate/live_code.html.erb
similarity index 100%
rename from app/views/candidate/live_coder.html.erb
rename to app/views/candidate/live_code.html.erb
diff --git a/app/views/candidate/live_code_text.html.erb b/app/views/candidate/live_code_text.html.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6041199
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/candidate/live_code_text.html.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<% answer = @answer.answer || {} %>
+
+<label for="answer_live_code_text">Reasoning</label>
+<%= text_area_tag 'answer[live_code_text][text]', (answer['text']) %>
+
+<div class="code-input">
+  <label for="answer_live_code_html">HTML</label>
+  <%= text_area_tag 'answer[live_code_text][html]', (answer['html']), { 'data-id' => 'code-html', class: 'code-answer code-html' } %>
+</div>
+
+<div class="code-input">
+  <label for="answer_live_code_css">CSS</label>
+  <%= text_area_tag 'answer[live_code_text][css]', (answer['css']), { 'data-id' => 'code-css', class: 'code-answer code-css' } %>
+</div>
+
+<div class="code-input">
+  <label for="answer_live_code_js">JS</label>
+  <%= text_area_tag 'answer[live_code_text][js]', (answer['js']), { 'data-id' => 'code-js', class: 'code-answer code-js' } %>
+</div>
+
+<div class="results" data-id="results"></div>
diff --git a/test/fixtures/answers.yml b/test/fixtures/answers.yml
index 901f60d..196ff0f 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/answers.yml
+++ b/test/fixtures/answers.yml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ dawn2:
 dawn3:
   candidate: dawn
   question: fed3
-  answer: {html: "dawn3 <h1>I'm a little tealpot</h1>", css: 'h1 {color: teal;}', js: ''}
+  answer: {html: "<h1>I'm a little tealpot</h1>", css: 'h1 {color: teal;}', js: '', text: 'I did this because reasons.'}
   saved: 0
   submitted: true
   created_at: <%= DateTime.now() - 38.hours - 50.minutes %>
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ dawn6:
 dawn7:
   candidate: dawn
   question: fed7
-  answer: {html: 'dawn7 <p>This means <strong>jQuery</strong> needs to be available in live-coder!</p>', css: "strong {font-size: 1.6em;}\n.green {color: green;}", js: '$("strong").addClass("green");'}
+  answer: {html: '<p>This means <strong>jQuery</strong> needs to be available in live-coder!</p>', css: "strong {font-size: 1.6em;}\n.green {color: green;}", js: '$("strong").addClass("green");'}
   saved: 0
   submitted: true
   created_at: <%= DateTime.now() - 38.hours - 34.minutes %>
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ peggy2:
 peggy3:
   candidate: peggy
   question: fed3
-  answer: {html: "peggy3 <h1>I'm a little tealpot</h1>", css: 'h1 {color: teal;}', js: ''}
+  answer: {html: "<h1>I'm a little tealpot</h1>", css: 'h1 {color: teal;}', js: '', text: 'I like turtles.'}
   saved: 0
   submitted: true
   created_at: <%= DateTime.now() - 38.hours - 50.minutes %>
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ peggy6:
 peggy7:
   candidate: peggy
   question: fed7
-  answer: {html: 'peggy7 <p>This means <strong>jQuery</strong> needs to be available in live-coder!</p>', css: "strong {font-size: 1.6em;}\n.green {color: green;}", js: '$("strong").addClass("green");'}
+  answer: {html: '<p>This means <strong>jQuery</strong> needs to be available in live-coder!</p>', css: "strong {font-size: 1.6em;}\n.green {color: green;}", js: '$("strong").addClass("green");'}
   saved: 0
   submitted: true
   created_at: <%= DateTime.now() - 38.hours - 34.minutes %>
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ richard2:
 richard3:
   candidate: richard
   question: fed3
-  answer: {html: 'richard3 <h1>Salmon</h1>', css: 'h1 {color: salmon;}', js: ''}
+  answer: {html: '<h1>Salmon</h1>', css: 'h1 {color: salmon;}', js: '', text: 'Gotta lotta GOOD things on sale, strangah.'}
   saved: 0
   submitted: true
   created_at: <%= DateTime.now() - 36.hours - 26.minutes %>
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ richard6:
 richard7:
   candidate: richard
   question: fed7
-  answer: {html: 'richard7 <p>This means <strong>jQuery</strong> needs to be available in live-coder!</p>', css: "strong {font-size: 1.6em;}\n.green {color: green;}", js: '$("strong").addClass("green");'}
+  answer: {html: '<p>This means <strong>jQuery</strong> needs to be available in live-coder!</p>', css: "strong {font-size: 1.6em;}\n.green {color: green;}", js: '$("strong").addClass("green");'}
   saved: 0
   submitted: true
   created_at: <%= DateTime.now() - 36.hours - 34.minutes %>
diff --git a/test/fixtures/questions.yml b/test/fixtures/questions.yml
index 027955f..8b3bec8 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/questions.yml
+++ b/test/fixtures/questions.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ fed3:
   quiz: fed
   question: How would you create a widget that would fit in a 250px wide area as well as a 400px wide area?
   category: CSS
-  input_type: live_code
+  input_type: live_code_text
   input_options:
   sort: 2
   active: true
diff --git a/test/validators/answer_format_validator_test.rb b/test/validators/answer_format_validator_test.rb
index b8a7d2f..3d50cc7 100644
--- a/test/validators/answer_format_validator_test.rb
+++ b/test/validators/answer_format_validator_test.rb
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class AnswerFormatValidatorTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     obj.answer = SecureRandom.urlsafe_base64(1001)
 
     refute obj.valid?
-    assert_match(/char.*limit.*1000$/, obj.errors.messages[:answer][0])
+    assert_match(/char.*limit.*1000.$/, obj.errors.messages[:answer][0])
   end
 
   # input_type CHECK BOX
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ class AnswerFormatValidatorTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
 
   test "live_code should FAIL without checking finish later" do
     obj = AnswerValidatable.new('live_code')
-    obj.answer = { "later" => "" }
+    obj.answer = { later: "" }
 
     refute obj.valid?
     assert_match(/come back/, obj.errors.messages[:answer][0])
@@ -149,9 +149,58 @@ class AnswerFormatValidatorTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
 
   test "live_code should FAIL without values" do
     obj = AnswerValidatable.new('live_code')
-    obj.answer = { "later" => "", "html" => "", "css" => "", "js" => "" }
+    obj.answer = { later: "", html: "", css: "", js: "" }
 
     refute obj.valid?
     assert_match(/write.*code/, obj.errors.messages[:answer][0])
   end
+
+  # input_type LIVE CODER TEXT
+  test "live_code_text should PASS with populated hash" do
+    obj = AnswerValidatable.new('live_code_text')
+    obj.answer = { html: 'this is html', css: '', js: '', text: 'some reasons' }
+
+    assert obj.valid?
+    assert obj.errors.messages.empty?
+  end
+
+  test "live_code_text should PASS with finish later" do
+    obj = AnswerValidatable.new('live_code_text')
+    obj.answer = { later: "true" }
+
+    assert obj.valid?
+    assert obj.errors.messages.empty?
+  end
+
+  test "live_code_text should FAIL with nil" do
+    obj = AnswerValidatable.new('live_code_text')
+    obj.answer = nil
+
+    refute obj.valid?
+    assert_match(/write.*code/, obj.errors.messages[:answer][0])
+  end
+
+  test "live_code_text should FAIL without checking finish later" do
+    obj = AnswerValidatable.new('live_code_text')
+    obj.answer = { later: "" }
+
+    refute obj.valid?
+    assert_match(/come back/, obj.errors.messages[:answer][0])
+  end
+
+  test "live_code_text should FAIL without values" do
+    obj = AnswerValidatable.new('live_code_text')
+    obj.answer = { later: "", html: "", css: "", js: "", text: "" }
+
+    refute obj.valid?
+    assert_match(/write.*code/, obj.errors.messages[:answer][0])
+  end
+
+  test "live_code_text should FAIL without text" do
+    obj = AnswerValidatable.new('live_code_text')
+    obj.answer = { later: "", html: "some html", css: "", js: "", text: "" }
+
+    refute obj.valid?
+    assert_match(/provide.*reason/, obj.errors.messages[:answer][0])
+  end
 end