{"id":2291,"date":"2016-10-31T01:33:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T06:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2016-10-17T07:48:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T12:48:29","slug":"the-proposal-writing-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/10\/the-proposal-writing-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Proposal-Writing Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>These are my most recent and most favored proposal-writing tools.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the past few years I have spent some of my time writing proposals for companies seeking government contracts. There are a lot tools available to proposal writers and all other types of writers.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my most favored and most productive tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>blank sheet of paper<\/li>\n<li>sharp pencil<\/li>\n<li>table at Popeye&#8217;s Fried Chicken<\/li>\n<li>(large serving of red beans and rice\u2014optional)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not very high-tech, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Effective? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Expensive? No.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to sell this to proposal managers? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this work? Most office environments are productivity and creativity attenuators, and I like Popeye&#8217;s red beans and rice. I also like the feel of pencil lead dragging across paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips These are my most recent and most favored proposal-writing tools. In the past few years I have spent some of my time writing proposals for companies seeking government contracts. There are a lot tools available to proposal writers and all other types of writers. Here are my most favored and most productive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,5],"tags":[187,128],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","category-writing","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}