Trying to Figure Out How to Proceed

I've made a mess of my novel. 

I don't know how it happened, but I suspect the culprit was story fatigue. I recall writing my very first book, and how I would take walks once I reached the halfway point to ponder how to proceed. I think if it had a really engrossing plot, the whole thing might have flowed naturally. But my plot was thin. While the initial concept was fine ~ a woman, through some kind of magic turn of events, assumes the identity of her grandmother, and subsequently her mother. My problem was, once I began delving into each woman's story, I ran out of ideas.

That's similar to what's happening now. I had a blast writing about my main character's first experiences in Nashville, especially the humorously humiliating ones. I even enjoyed the Iowa scene, which drove her to quit and run away. That scene is long because it was fun to write. I kept piling on new disasters.

But after a while, there were no more surprises. Things became mechanical. Getting the MC out of her messes was just a matter of coming up with the most logical solutions. What fun was that? Yes, there were a couple of confrontation scenes, but because I knew they were coming, the spontaneity was missing. It's my own fault I created some situations early on that would eventually need to be resolved, but now that I'm reaching that point, they feel like have-to's. 

It's not that I keep adding new scenes because they're exciting; it's because I haven't figured out how to settle those outstanding issues, so I'm delaying. The worst part of all is my over-reliance on dialogue. 

The possible solutions I've come up with so far is to use the text-to-read feature in Word to hear just how bad things are, which is step one. Then I might have to start pasting individual paragraphs into a new document in order to break up all the dialogue with description. Starting with the manuscript as a whole would be too daunting, but if I tackle it one piece at a time, I'm hoping it'll be easier. 

I'm currently watching a video that offers different ways to edit. Some of them are impractical, such as printing out the manuscript and cutting it into different blocks of text, then rearranging them. Seriously? I wouldn't do that even if I had a working printer and unlimited funds to buy ink. Besides, rearranging isn't my issue. The novel flows chronologically, and no, I'm not going to try some crazy trick involving putting a scene first, then relying on flashbacks to add context. I'm not Quentin Tarantino. 

Editing will not be as simple as creating a jigsaw puzzle. It's going to be hard, tedious work. I'm not good at description, which is why my stories have very little of it. It's a steep mountain I'm going to need to climb. 

I know that journeymen authors have a lot of problems they need to solve, but I bet most of them haven't messed up a story so badly that they don't know how to get out of it.