I just finished writing a grant proposal which, while I spent more time on it than I wanted, I had purposely left not much time for it. \u00a0I do tend to spend as much time as I give myself on things, which is why I like teaching in the morning and not preparing for lecture until the day of.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, when I started working on this, I was having difficulty with writer’s block. \u00a0I had plenty of notes, and somewhat of an organization, but I<\/p>\n
just<\/p>\n
couldn’t<\/p>\n
write<\/p>\n
a<\/p>\n
complete<\/p>\n
sentence.<\/p>\n
Frustrated, I decided to just get something down on paper. \u00a0I started writing an introduction that was entirely self-depricating, riddled with bad puns and references to “self-abuse” – generally amusing myself. \u00a0I very quickly wrote two pages and dug into the meat of the proposal, now adopting the usual (more dry, formal, self-congratulatory) tone that is more common to NSF proposals.<\/p>\n
I have to say, though, I think being on an NSF panel could be quite a bit more fun if we actually submitted such … honesty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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