Doing that thing where I engage in a ludicrous amount of work in order to cut 500 words off a novel

Well, I'm working on revising my other young adult novel: Enter Title Here. For all the novel first drafts I've done, this is only the second time I've taken a novel through the revision process and come close to producing a final draft. However, when I was revising This Beautiful Fever, I did develop something of a system for the final stages of revisi…