Hard things are hard things so you work at them one little piece at a time until the hard part here is a little bit loose and the hard part there is a little bit soft but then probably you return to that first part which used to be loose but is how hard again so you work at it some more and some more and if you are very lucky and when it has been a very long time (going one piece at a time) there will come a moment when you look up and step back and see it (magically it seems) turned into something that is no longer what it was when you began.
you mean like a grant proposal?
Or a Little Opera