Perseverance comes up all the time with writing, recently on Brian Keene’s podcast. Hanging in there encompasses a lot of different skills (patience, tolerance, coping,…). I took 29 years, to the month or so, between selling to these two magazines. Since Tim Murr bought my tale last October, others have sold, which highlights my biggest mistake for three decades– I kept writing, but I never sent anything out… So, submit your stories if you want to be in print. Not a brilliant take, but a lived one.