finding time to find funding

I've been working on a very small grant application for a regional arts development fund (qld) application round. It is frustrating and time consuming and making me wonder if I really do need the money, maybe I should just research and write what I want and forget to ask for money. Why am I asking for money? Sometimes it helps...and now that I have no business income (which was hardly an income anyway) I guess that a small amount of grant money will assist me to get the project started, with an outcome that might be relevant or not. So, if I get the grant, will the work be better? thinking that maybe it will.