Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The writing grind

I am currently writing a grant application. This is hard going even for old hands. The most irritating bit is all the messing around with formats and fonts. As to text I find the best strategy is like for most writing: just get something (almost anything!) down on paper and then rewrite and polish. This first step is the hardest.

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