Thinking of applying for an Arts Council Grant? Some tips.

It seems to me that writers are often a bit shy of applying for grants to support their work. In all honesty, we're just too used to getting on with it unpaid. If we charged for the sheer number of hours we put in, no-one could afford us. Many of us hope, one day, that our work will become commercially viable, and until then we're content to plod on, squeezing our art into the cracks between work, friends, family, the cleaning, what's on at the cinema...It's just not part of our culture. I've...