I'm a scholar, and two of my favourite hobbies are baking cakes & doing jigsaws. I've realised they all draw on the same personality trait. I like to conceive of a project in my mind, then toil away at different bits of it, always with the overall vision in my head, moulding and shaping until the different bits come together to make the whole, then refining and fine-tuning until my vision is realised. Currently working on a grant proposal and that's exactly how it feels.
I'm sure the grant application will be as beautiful as your cake! I like neither baking nor jigsaws, but I read a lot of books on architecture and see some similarity between architecture and academic writing.