http://elizabethstark.com/2009/12/14/withholding-in-writing-not-just-for-relationships-anymore/ Elizabeth Stark's Storytelling World Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:05:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://elizabethstark.com/2009/12/14/withholding-in-writing-not-just-for-relationships-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-1278 What Writers Can Learn from Christmas | Write Angles Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:21:02 +0000 http://elizabethstark.com/?p=1426#comment-1278 [...] 1) Unwrapping half the fun? Worrying about being able to smile and thank Aunt Matilda for the horrible present keep you up at night? Anticipation is more involving than payoff. See my blog on withholding. [...] [...] 1) Unwrapping half the fun? Worrying about being able to smile and thank Aunt Matilda for the horrible present keep you up at night? Anticipation is more involving than payoff. See my blog on withholding. [...]

]]> http://elizabethstark.com/2009/12/14/withholding-in-writing-not-just-for-relationships-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-1213 admin Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:16:17 +0000 http://elizabethstark.com/?p=1426#comment-1213 Cool, Lara. Thanks. I'll have to check her book out. Cool, Lara. Thanks. I’ll have to check her book out.

]]> http://elizabethstark.com/2009/12/14/withholding-in-writing-not-just-for-relationships-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-1211 lara Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:49:36 +0000 http://elizabethstark.com/?p=1426#comment-1211 The best example I can think of for withholding in something I've read recently is Laura Lippman's What the Dead Know. I was astounded at how well she managed to keep so much from the reader but in a believable way - right up until the end. The best example I can think of for withholding in something I’ve read recently is Laura Lippman’s What the Dead Know. I was astounded at how well she managed to keep so much from the reader but in a believable way – right up until the end.

]]> http://elizabethstark.com/2009/12/14/withholding-in-writing-not-just-for-relationships-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 admin Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:12:14 +0000 http://elizabethstark.com/?p=1426#comment-1210 I agree, Thais--that part was surprising and interesting, although I did feel in the end he had to make the powers-that-be (church and state) the good guys, despite their seeming bad the whole way through . . . Thanks for commenting! I agree, Thais–that part was surprising and interesting, although I did feel in the end he had to make the powers-that-be (church and state) the good guys, despite their seeming bad the whole way through . . . Thanks for commenting!

]]> http://elizabethstark.com/2009/12/14/withholding-in-writing-not-just-for-relationships-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-1209 Thais Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:53:29 +0000 http://elizabethstark.com/?p=1426#comment-1209 I loved the Da Vinci Code. I loved the feminine divine "intelligent" part. I loved the Da Vinci Code. I loved the feminine divine “intelligent” part.

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