Christmas fic too long

Completed -- rather late in the day -- the main draft of my Writers Anonymous Christmas challenge Crimson Peak story. Unfortunately it has definitely come out far too long, at a total of eighteen pages; I actually did a word count for the first 2000 words and that came to about six and a half pages, so I've got five to six thousand words here for a story with a 4000-word limit. I could probably cut a few hundred to the story's overall benefit, and might cut a thousand with excessive violence. But reducing it to two-thirds of the original draft is a pretty tall order; if it can be done at all it's going to require omitting entire story elements, which is rather more easily done *before* you've written them than after they've been fully developed:-(
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