dearkaleighh's advice column

hey everyone, i'm kaleigh.
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Okay, so there's Storywrite.com, which I'm addicted to. But anyways, I am still in the process of writing a story for one of the contests. I was going to make it around 5000 words, but I kind of underestimated how developed I was going to make my story. Now it's over 10,000 words long and it's not completely done. I mean yes, I can end it where I am right now but there are problems with that:
X-I'll have the strongest urge to write an epilogue
X-Story will feel incomplete [lose points]
X-I won't be satisfied
X-It will feel like I rushed things at the end [again, I will probably lose points]

So my questions are:
1)Would you be annoyed/pissed off to read like a 15,000 word long story if you were the judge of a writing contest? [The judge hosting the contest has no word limits]
2)Should I just submit it or make it shorter?
3)If I should make it shorter, should I make it into chapters, just shorten the whole story, make it into prologue, story, and epilogue, or what?

AHH please help me. I asked the judge what he wanted and he hasn't replied yet. The contest ends in 5 days and I'd like to have plenty of time to make adjustments...

i say keep writing& write until you are satisified with it: you dont want to rush a story because then it could either not make sense or like you said loose points: and if theres not a word limit take advantage of that! and make sure next time you limit yourself :)
hope i helped&best of luck!

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