Tom Stone
Persistence. And lots of reading by many different writers in many different genres. I also find that a knowledge of and feeling for the dramatic structure used in plays and screenwriting to be very helpful in setting up a plot. I rarely pay any attention to it now that it's in my system, but it's really good to know about.
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