<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WnZ39p0Dgydaz1</author><text>Reminds me of academic papers. When I first started in academia I thought it was all about merit, results, and following a proper scientific process.&lt;p&gt;Turns out if you want to be successful, as measured by paper acceptances or citations, which is the standard metric used by universities and companies, it&amp;#x27;s all about being able to tell a good story to convince reviewers.&lt;p&gt;A well-told and convincing story can hide all kind of faults in your experiments or results. It&amp;#x27;s pretty much all you need.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mindfulhack</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a successful full-time professional grantwriter. There are about 100 tricks in the book for standing out from the pack, though not all apply to all categories or instances of grants.&lt;p&gt;But no matter what type of grant it is, the biggest point I tell people is this:&lt;p&gt;You need a &lt;i&gt;story&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;All other aspects flow from that. (E.g. how effectively you can communicate the flow of logic in the writing, and other technical aspects which include much more than just the text boxes and what this blog summarily describes.)&lt;p&gt;Find that story, then it will rise above the pack. Most people want grant money but have no idea what it takes to get it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing Grant Applications</title><url>https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/im-good-enough-im-smart-enough-and-dog-gone-it-people-like-me-writing-grant-applications</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>The most compelling pitch decks have a good story. I don&amp;#x27;t know much about grant applications, but this advice does seem intuitive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mindfulhack</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a successful full-time professional grantwriter. There are about 100 tricks in the book for standing out from the pack, though not all apply to all categories or instances of grants.&lt;p&gt;But no matter what type of grant it is, the biggest point I tell people is this:&lt;p&gt;You need a &lt;i&gt;story&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;All other aspects flow from that. (E.g. how effectively you can communicate the flow of logic in the writing, and other technical aspects which include much more than just the text boxes and what this blog summarily describes.)&lt;p&gt;Find that story, then it will rise above the pack. Most people want grant money but have no idea what it takes to get it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing Grant Applications</title><url>https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/im-good-enough-im-smart-enough-and-dog-gone-it-people-like-me-writing-grant-applications</url></story>