Colored coded edits seem to work.

I would highly recommend it.  I had so much to do as far as changing things around went, and I couldn’t wrap my head around them or focus on any one particular thing.  So I got out some fine point Sharpies. I would use brighter colored pens next time–these were all part of their “new” color line and had names like “cappuccino” and “olive”, but they still worked quite well.

Green (olive) was getting rid of that pesky character that I decided was superfluous (he died a rather natural death, as a matter of fact–I thought it would be more difficult to get rid of him, but when I read through the edited pages, I don’t miss him at all.  He was more like a prop–he came out when she needed him, but wasn’t necessary to the action itself.)

Red (maroon?  Maybe brick.) was the adjustment with one of the characters on how much he knew and when he knew it, because he goes all over the place.

Brown (cappuccino) was working on developing the distrust of her father more.  She has this image of him in her head and it all goes to hell the more and more she finds out about him.

Gray (slate?) was just plain old plot structure.  I wrote so many scenes and just plopped them down wherever I thought they should go and now some of them don’t make any sense.  So I’m working on combining and reorganizing.

So..to sum up?  Big fan of color coding my editing.  I doubt it would work for everyone, but it’s a smash hit with me.  I was feeling completely overwhelmed, and now I can just force myself to only look at that one aspect, really focus on it, and get something done.