And yeah, hitting the persistent character issues kind of made things difficult, because ultimately those parts couldn't be about Xander at all, but it had to be about them. This was especially hard in the Buffy chapter because I could imagine that as reality started seeping in she'd have a lot of issues cranked up to 11, and it was hard to focus only one one or two that could ultimately cause her to self-destruct (where as Dawn, Giles and Willow, by contrast, might have one or two but not the dozen or so choices we have with Buffy).
Yeah, you can probably tell that Buffy's part was the worst to write, and it was the one that got hacked-and-slashed and re-written the most to make it "fit" in a single posting.
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And yeah, hitting the persistent character issues kind of made things difficult, because ultimately those parts couldn't be about Xander at all, but it had to be about them. This was especially hard in the Buffy chapter because I could imagine that as reality started seeping in she'd have a lot of issues cranked up to 11, and it was hard to focus only one one or two that could ultimately cause her to self-destruct (where as Dawn, Giles and Willow, by contrast, might have one or two but not the dozen or so choices we have with Buffy).
Yeah, you can probably tell that Buffy's part was the worst to write, and it was the one that got hacked-and-slashed and re-written the most to make it "fit" in a single posting.