Things have moved on a speed since the last post for this blog. I have written the majority of the proposal for funding, and what an epic that has turned out to be. It is a fine line between underwriting and over embellishing your thoughts and ideas, when it come to proposals. I am not a natural born writer so composing ideas on paper does not come easy to me. Why oh why do university courses not run workshops on how to write proposals? Maybe some do? I know that the uni I took my BA and MA had nothing on their curriculum for introducing this skills to their students. And a skill, it really is! Writing to funders is exceptionally difficult to do as you are having to ensure that every tick on their checklist is covered in some way or another. Universities…please put practical skills such as proposal writing on your curriculum for your art students. What an invaluable addition to their training as an artist this would be.
