In today’s blog post  I wrapped up a series on “what made a difference” – what were the most important steps that got our writers from aspiring to published Was it pursuing an MA that led them to an agent? Was it a professional course that got them to an editor? There are links to the whole month’s worth of blog posts about all the different ways we got to where we wanted to be  but  in this last post  we also talk about maybe the most important writing tool of all – grit: the ability to keep going  even when it looks like you’ll never finish your book or find the team who can help you realise your papery dreams