254: Longest day of your life (part three)

[zippyknowsbest]

12:47 pm

Her mother jostles her. Wake up, Zipporah. Time to go to school.

I don't want to.

What of it? Wake up. Wake up. Insistent fingers at her shoulder.

Leave me alone.

Then her mother bites her hard on the hand and she cries out, jerking back to wakefulness, to pain. There's a flurry of wings and a harsh croaking, and she

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[shaman_x]

*applauds*

[zippyknowsbest]

Thank you very much.

[shaman_x]

That was most excellent.

And, also, like, 17K words! Dude!

[zippyknowsbest]

Glad you enjoyed. :)

Yeahhhh pretty close to. I think around 16,800 for the final tally.

[sand_andwater]

tl; dr

[zippyknowsbest]

*whacks with a nerf hammer*

[sand_andwater]

You know I love this though I still think it could have been longer. :)

*flees*

[zippyknowsbest]

FOR THIS YOU GET ZIPPY'S ANGRY FACE

[whatstheddx]

So, longest day of your life ended up being longest fic of your life, eh?

So, off I go to read from the beginning...!

[zippyknowsbest]

*hands you water for your trip, and possibly an emergency flare for if you get lost*

[whatstheddx]

Haha, it's crazy, though, isn't it? The first ever prompt I wrote for House ended up being 10K words long. I finished it and was like, "Holy shit, HOW".

*takes!*

[zippyknowsbest]

I've hit ten-k before with another prompt, for onewingbloody, which was miles easier to write than this thing. If we count the 8700-word first draft I threw out, I wrote near 25K to end up with this.

Fucking writing.

[alan_shore]

Whew. That was phenomenal. I'll try and scrape together some more coherent thoughts later ;)

[zippyknowsbest]

N'awwww. :D Glad you liked.