Ask the Author: E.C. Downes
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E.C. Downes
It's difficult to explain but sometimes, I wake up and feel exceptionally creative, then ideas flow out of my mind like a river. Other times, I might hear a word or see an object that causes that same gush of ideas to form, then I just have to put pen to paper and shut out the world for days at a time. However my trilogy EUROPA, was different. I made a friend who turned out to be my muse, he caused a flame to ignite in my brain that forged EUROPA.
E.C. Downes
When my creative juices begin to flow and I put pen to paper, it's like drinking nectar. It has the ability to fill me whilst the ideas flow out creating living breathing moving entities and events. Living through my characters eyes and walking with them as they breathe and navigate life. That to me is the best part of writing.
E.C. Downes
Whilst teaching at a university in Beijing China, I had a class of non English majors that opted to take my class. It was Earth week, and they were bored with the traditional activities based on recycling, how to save Earth's OZone and over population. Then as I tried to re-focus my students a random question came to mind.
"What if we did find a habitable planet in a Goldilocks zone would you leave Earth to go live there?" I asked. It was then that the idea of EUROPA first began to take shape.
"What if we did find a habitable planet in a Goldilocks zone would you leave Earth to go live there?" I asked. It was then that the idea of EUROPA first began to take shape.
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