diff --git a/content/proposals.md b/content/proposals.md
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@@ -185,9 +185,9 @@ is as follows:
     -   Take care in creating your proposal. Specify your intended
         changes, and give reasoning to back them up. Changes without
         justification will likely be poorly received by the community.
-    -   At the time of creating your draft there is no PR ID, so you
+    -   At the time of creating your draft you will not yet know the PR number, so you
         should use a placeholder number to name your file and edit that
-        after PR submission, the suggested steps are described in
+        after PR submission. The suggested steps are described in
         detail [in the proposals guide](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#1-writing-the-proposal).
 -   Fork and make a PR to the
     [matrix-spec-proposals](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals) repository.