Statistically, you should be packing twice as much story into your pages.
When you rewrite, look for scenes that accomplish only one thing, for instance, showing that one character doesn’t like another one.
Now. Take that scene and snuggle it down into another scene that accomplishes something else, for instance, the protagonist’s final challenge related beat that he is afraid of spiders.
So now your two separate scenes that once took up two or three pages take up one page where the protagonist climbs a wall to escape a spider and the antagonist picks up the spider and throws it on him.
Advanced technique: triple these Spanx by having it happen at a critical moment in the protagonist’s plan to impress his crush.
This is how to rewrite for max impact of your scenes, which, you will notice, leaves you about twice as much room to keep escalating toward the end.
