I have a confession to make. For the first few years of my career, I wrote grant applications the way most artists do – stare at the form until it makes even less sense, procrastinate as a stress response, write something heartfelt and vaguely important sounding, hit send at the very last minute and then panic–refresh my inbox every day for the next six to eight weeks.
Reader, it was confronting. Not because the applications were bad – but because now I could see exactly where I had been going wrong (and it’s not the procrastinating). I could see talented artists, genuinely exciting projects, invisible on the page.
