To succeed at writing, you need patience and perseverance. As James Baldwin said:

If you don’t dig in to pursue your long-term writing goal, then your manuscript will become another dust gatherer.

Angela Duckworth is a psychologist, academic and popular science author who’s studied grit—which she defines as  “passion and perseverance for long-term goals.“

She’s devised a test to measure your grit:

 http://angeladuckworth.com/grit-scale/

Click on MORE ABOUT GRIT for information about what this means.

I scored 4.59 out of 5—“higher than about 95% of American adults in a recent study“—proving what my mother used to say about me, that I‘m mule-headed!

How did you do?