Daily Writing #16: POP Writing
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Daily Writing #16: POP Writing
writing = introspective, subjective photograph of your human experience
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.
Scott Belsky • 9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications
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.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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.
Alison Jones • Exploratory Writing: Everyday magic for life and work
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.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The form I favor is point of view (POV). It is not a rigidly defined concept.1 Its purpose is to define what a person needs—not what we think she needs, rather what she actually needs.