Persistence. Tenacity. Determination. Insistence. Obstinacy. Stubbornness. When I started trying to publish my writing (fiction and academic) I always kept a log to track each attempt and the outcome. Originally, the purpose of those logs was to remind me what had happened so far and what was happening at that point in time - it can take months to hear back on submissions! Looking back on those logs, they also serve another purpose: a track record of my persistence . . . and