This might be the topic of an upcoming book or book chapter, but if you consider the basics of good grantsmanship, they “boil down” to these three. Time, relationships, and words are vitally important in the proposal writing process and they can all have an impact on the three aspects that I talk about in the book Reviewer-Focused Grant Writing: Making the Vision Plain So the Reader Can Run!

Time

Time has to be managed because so much of the work to be done takes a lot of time, especially getti...