21. Editing Your Proposal

So you want to be a good writer? Then force yourself to be a rewriter. That’s where good writing happens.

A lot of people apparently believe that good writers don’t need to revise, that excellent proposals simply pour out of them in their complete and final forms. Trust me—that’s a delusion.

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