What do you plan on doing with your work?

My writing advice is as follows:
Have someone else read it
When you read it to yourself, read out loud
Always keep moving the plot forward. Take out everything else.
And, above all else, every reader wants to be moved. It's your job to give them a powerful, emotional experience.

Hope that helps!

But I look at it as a chance to make the story the best it can be. The story deserves publication but it won't stand a chance without good editing.

The big jobs like changing POV or shifting/adding/removing subplots or adding/removing characters take a lot of work. As I begin the major element revision, I keep notes on the other changes it will cause (maybe a particular scene will require a different approach, or a character will need more development, etc.) You really can't know if a major element revision will work until you try it. If you don't like it, you can always go back to the original. In my experience, though, once I saw it was a better approach, it really gave me the motivation to see that big change through to the end. Sometimes it even spurred brainstorming about other aspects of the story.

One caution when editing on the computer - save very often and back up each version on a flash drive/cd/separate computer - even consider keeping a daily version or at least a complete new version for major changes. You may decide as you're working your POV change that you want to go back to something you added, then took out days before. If you save, save, save and keep various revised versions you might be able to do that.

that works, I get this warm glow of satisfaction, sort of like scratching a mosquito bite that has been bugging me for hours.

Be careful when changing tenses. There will be more errors than you realize. Get someone else to proofread in case you miss a few "saids" and a few "lookeds". And be sure to do more than just change the verb tenses. Present tense allows for more gut impressions, more description, more of an emotional roller coaster. First person present tense is probably to best way to get your reader inside the head of your main character.

Some might say that I'm arriving at my "style." I read things over and it feels like I'm biting into aluminium foil when I come across words like, "would" and "ever." And now I find myself pulling words out if they sound like they came out of a thesaurus. I definitely like a cleaner style of writing. Eragon, for instance, I just can't get into it. Such flowery writing that I find it distracting. Yet, I know it's a good genre.

If a word or phrase isn't necessary, slash it. WRITE without inhibition. Edit later. Three drafts is not a lot. I generally hit at least 50 before I even consider releasing something. No matter how refined you think it is, you'll always find something on a subsequent read - punctuation, logical impossibility, time conundrum, or just that you used the same word twice in the same sentence. I usually edit on screen, but I always do a print copy every once in a while. I print it on regular paper and 3-hole punch it and use bookrings to hold it together. I make notes and edits on the blank side of the previous page and the recycle the pages without notes by turning them over. It works great.

Oh, and if you want a reviewer, PM me.

If the novel drags it may be more plot related than POV. I have no means of comparison with your particular novel, yet frequently I'll see a dragging plot more than the wrong POV. One thing I always do when editing is constantly ask myself the question "can I do this easier" or "can I do this better". If the answer is yes to either question, then I go back and rewrite the scene(s) to pick up the pace.

I personally find that putting aside something I've written for a period of time, from several weeks to several months, is highly useful. I can no longer remember exactly what I meant, nor am I quite as emotionally invested in the wonderfulness of my writing. While one thing is on hold, I can work on something else.

It would require recapping the main points and will keep you on track.

Also, the Apple version of Scriveners also has a way to keep all your characters straight.