I'd need to remember that The Big Time is actually a stage play in novel form (FL came of a tribe of actors). It's a particular type of stage play; a 'closed room' mystery ala Sartre Pirandello and Chekov; with a ticking nuclear bomb in a corner of reality sealed off from space-time to give it that hot curry picquancy. It was actually performed as a play around 1982.
My story is set after BT so the bomb crisis is resolved. I'd have to think of some plot constraint that would lend a similar urgency to Dawn's relations with Sid Greta Beau Doc and Lily etc. Tentatively, Dawn must be gotten back to our time before the Spiders find out she is in the Place and forcibly recruit her into the Change War. (It's Spike's fault of course; he opened the interdimensional portal through which the demons chased Dawn).
Reluctantly I'd probably leave the Spider Soldiers out, though it might be fun to see Dawn trade quips with Erich, Greta's snide Nazi boyfriend.
A reader told me Dawn's intial dialogue with Lily was the funniest thing sh'd read in quite a while. I miss it, a little.
REWRITING 'DAWN IN THE CHANGE WORLD'
My story is set after BT so the bomb crisis is resolved. I'd have to think of some plot constraint that would lend a similar urgency to Dawn's relations with Sid Greta Beau Doc and Lily etc. Tentatively, Dawn must be gotten back to our time before the Spiders find out she is in the Place and forcibly recruit her into the Change War. (It's Spike's fault of course; he opened the interdimensional portal through which the demons chased Dawn).
Reluctantly I'd probably leave the Spider Soldiers out, though it might be fun to see Dawn trade quips with Erich, Greta's snide Nazi boyfriend.
A reader told me Dawn's intial dialogue with Lily was the funniest thing sh'd read in quite a while. I miss it, a little.