This one pass revision stuff: it's interesting. Keeps me from losing the forest for the trees. (Not that this is really the first revision. I'm just treating it as if it is.)

My usual MO is to do "serial revision" (overlapping tinkering) Refraining has made me able to pull back and see the big picture and how the scenes work: which ones do, which ones don't.

I'm now teetering on the brink of eliminating a POV. I've already easily deleted two of his scenes because nothing much happened in them. Just expository musings. They don't tell anything that the other scenes in the book haven't already told or could tell in a more interesting context.

The pro side of keeping his scenes is that he's a sociopathic person with tons of power (ie, the evil overlord). His creepiness creates a sense of danger.

But he might just have to settle for being his nasty self through the eyes of others. Bonus: an element of uncertainty, because on the outside, he's not all that bad