Why oh why do they make funding applications so complicated? I should know what to say by now as it isn’t the first one I’ve done, but there’s always that struggle to fill each box with the maximum required words.
You feel obliged to say more than the couple of sentences that it actually takes to describe the project, so this brings me to the 7th day and I’m still not even a quarter of the way through. Last night, I spent two hours answering just two questions. I’m pretty sure it’s designed to make you want to give up.
As a slight relief from the tedium of filling in forms, I’ve also spent the last few evenings packing up the work I donated as a reward for our Kick-starter project. Firstly, WHY did I donate 10 works? What on earth was I thinking? They were only postcard sized works, but looking at them later on, I felt it wasn’t enough to send them as they were, and decided to get small mounts cut. I’m not used to have to ‘present’ works, preferring the rough and ready sketches and ideas I have in my books. So I felt that I needed to clean them up, get them mounted….and agonising over whether they were any good, let alone if the ‘buyers’ would even like them. Why are we so critical of our own work?
As if this choice of life isn’t stressful enough!
