When Annie Dillard says, "Write like you will die tomorrow," she means some of many things. Basically, write what is on your mind, what is unique to you, and don't hold it in until a later writing. If you have something good to write about, do not even put it off until later in your current writing, let alone for another completely different writing in the future.
Some things unique to you and your writing will entice people in different ways than other things they have heard many times over will. Speak what is on your mind because there is only one of you, and once you are gone, so are your thoughts and ideas, unless you have written them down.
She mentions some rather famous people and explains how they became popular not by speaking of normal everyday things. They used topics and ideas unique to them, and wrote them down. This has separated them from other writers and caused them to become popular.
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You offer some interesting reflection on Dillard's article. Try to take a more focused look at perhaps one thing rather than the entire response.
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