Center Stage

“Hollister felt some nerves come over him—he believed it was classified as glossophobia.” I personally like to call it the spotlight of scrutiny or the hundred eyes of judgement. For the average person, it is tough taking center stage and be perfectly comfortable.

I think we have all at some point had to be in front of an audience. For me, whether it was a piano recital or an oral report, my hands would get clammy and the sweats would come. The uncomfortable lump in my throat was better there than an uncomfortable lump in my stomach if swallowed.

Touching back on the subject of relatability, this is another experience the characters in this book should share. Hollister may have hundreds of years of life experience and physical abilities beyond regular people. He dreams, he loves, he cries and he also craps his pants when on stage.