https://blog.isakkvam.com/tags/thewritinglife/Recent content in Thewritinglife on Isak's BlogHugoen-usFri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.isakkvam.com/post/friday-favorites-31/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.isakkvam.com/post/friday-favorites-31/<p>Happy Friday,</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxM237UaFw">Cue the music</a>, brew that pot. This week’s roundup is too similar to <a href="https://blog.isakkvam.com/post/friday-favorites-29/">two weeks ago</a>. Annie Dillard died on Tuesday, one of my biggest writing idols who had me asking myself “you can <em>do</em> that?,” and later taught me through her work how to write and live.</p> <p>Here are 10 interesting things about Annie Dillard I’m sharing this week:</p>https://blog.isakkvam.com/post/the-writing-life/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.isakkvam.com/post/the-writing-life/<p>Annie Dillard died on Wednesday, who’s been one of my top influences, inspirations, and mysterious benefactor of writing wisdom for the past 10 years.</p> <p>Her book, “The Writing Life,” is one of my favorite books about writing, but because she’s such a good writer, it doesn’t even rank in my Top 3 Best Dillard Books. Maybe Top 5. Maybe. Because each of her books is so good, and teach you so much about life and nature and philosophy and writing — her book about how to write and how to live is just the surface.</p>