Those of you in the UK may have been following the political satire “The Thick of It” over recent weeks. One of the characters – number 10’s spin doctor – is played by an actor called Vincent Franklin. I stumbled across something he wrote for a corporate audience the other day, and it resonated with the work we do on proposals:
Writing is about editing. Only a genius gets it right first time. So once you’ve written something, it’s time to make it better…
[E]ncourage people to share their work and get feedback early on. If you wait until people have put hours and hours into something, how open are they really going to be? So share plans and first drafts, not just highly polished work.