Book Therapist: Help your book resolve its issues
Elizabeth Hollander
I've spent my life around creative people. I grew up in New York City, in a family of distinguished writers, scholars, artists and musicians. After college I spent ten years as an artists' model, working intensively with seasoned professionals, students, and artists of all kinds and levels.
I'm also a first rate editor. I have a PhD in English Literature, and have been teaching writing and humanities for over twenty-five years - at Baruch, Lehman and SUNY Maritime Colleges, and at Stanford and Yeshiva Universities. I've published a number of essays about modeling, and articles about art and literature, 19th century English and American fiction. I live in Queens.
I've worked with fiction writers, playwrights, and poets on
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getting characters to advance the plot
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setting timelines
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making tone and dialogue consistent
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arranging short pieces and poems in sequence.
I've also worked with scholars, journalists and essayists on
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organizing information and arguments
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research directions and strategies
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deciding which themes are worth developing and which are distractions
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adjusting to the technical demands of a new genre or kind of subject matter
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