Daily Writing #16: POP Writing

Once you’ve created a new and DIFFERENT category in your mind, you must then communicate the differences of that category to your audience. This is what’s called your “Point of View.” Your POV is the way you see the world, the unique vantage point that allows everyone else to understand your perspective.

Oral arguments and creative presentations are the new school essay (at the least, writing will now be supervised in class!). ChatGPT has done to writing what the calculator did to arithmetic.

A point is an idea intentionally expressed. A point of view is the perspective—conscious and unconscious—through which the work emerges. What causes us to notice a piece of art is rarely the point being made. We are drawn to the way an artist’s filter refracts ideas, not to the ideas themselves.

Morning Pages are a key practice in The Artist’s Way, her 12-week course aimed at awakening creativity. But if you’re using freewriting as a tool for business thinking rather than as a purely creative exercise, it can be more helpful to start with a prompt.

A point of view is different from having a point. A point is an idea intentionally expressed. A point of view is the perspective—conscious and unconscious—through which the work emerges.

something I’ll call the three Ps: portfolio, process, and people.