Gloria – Character Study

 

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I’m taking a MasterClass with Samuel L. Jackson. He is talking about acting. I am in the middle of creating my characters for my own book, “Once Again”. I wasn’t sure where to go with it. I am at the point early on in the course where Samuel is talking about how you look at any source material about your character. He said if there is a book, read it. Twice. Many times, the author will give you insights into the character’s head. Then, he said, you have to start imagining how the character would act under any number of circumstances. Like, how does this character display anger, and what will set them off? And, why?

At this point in writing the book, which has mostly been in my head, I only know about Gloria, a lady who introduced herself to me in Spirit and said she would be my lead female character.

I am accustomed to having characters in my fiction get up and do things that I’d never anticipated. It’s a fun part about writing. But that was all before I learned how to do psychic channeling in 1993. In this instance, Gloria is really talking to me, as plain as you might.

Can I say something?

Sure, this is Gloria. I will put everything she says in a bold italic font. Okay, you can say something.

I’ve got stage fright.

Really? I wouldn’t have thought you would.

Well, I’m being in character.

Okay. I get stage fright, too.

Good, then you’ll know where I’m coming from. That’s important for a writer to know. It’s difficult for a person to write brave stuff if they have trouble being brave.

Are you brave too?

Eventually. I’m afraid of ice.

Why ice?

Because if you go down to the stream and the stream is frozen, you could break through the ice and hurt yourself.

That happened to you, didn’t it?

Yes. But I still had to go. Who else was going to get water?

How old were you?

I think I was still sort of little. I think I might have been seven years old. It was what I had to do.

Gloria?

What?

I think you were brave. A person is brave when they do stuff that frightens them, no matter how anybody feels around them.

Like the time our stagecoach driver fell off the wagon. He was drunk, and he rolled right off of it. The horses were spooked, and they ran hell bent for leather. My sister and I were inside the coach. She was frozen in the corner, her eyes wild. I had never seen them that big. I knew she wasn’t going to do anything, so I took off my skirt and climbed out the door. It was hard because though I knew how to climb trees, I had never climbed the side of a stagecoach that was tilting this way and that. There was dust everywhere. The horses were frightened. I was afraid we were going to die. There was nothing for it. I climbed, found the reins, and brought the horses to a standstill. I did what needed to be done.

Now, that’s brave.

It didn’t feel like it at the time because I was so terribly frightened.

 

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