It’s So Iterative!
You’d think that something like grant writing would be so logical, so linear. It’s not. It’s a very iterative, unfolding process that takes lots of unpredictable turns. Mostly it is the going back and forth that is painful for me. I think our team has made a decision and that we will go with it, and then we change it. I guess a grant is really a complex puzzle. I usually use the analogy of a puzzle when someone asks me about grant writing. It’s a lot of decisions strung together that all interact with each other. Figuring out the intricate puzzle (and then making it appear so simple and elegant in your grant writing) is our “work” of grant writing - creating the elegant pattern of our good idea for the reader.
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