That Took Me 30 Minutes to Do and 15 Years to Learn

The undeniable effects of experience on your craft.

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day
Published in
5 min readMar 25, 2023

--

A closeup of a person playing a ukulele.
Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash

I am a grant writer by trade, and 2023 marks my 15th year of writing grants. The whole thing started with an internship that I needed to graduate college, and it’s been a decade and a half of a career ever since. I’ve been writing for much longer, too — writing and English were my favorite…

--

--

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.