Engagment

How can you judge engaging writing? Is it determined by the subject matter? The word choice? The speed at which people read? How much people enjoy reading? It could be any and all of these, but are there writings out there that aren't engaging? Sure, but I thought that a book was never as boring as the reader.

As writers, if we think of it this way then at least we know that what we write about will always out-duel the audience. But does this mean that the audience, essentially, has no say, no opinion important enough for the matter? How can stories be more important than the people who read them?

How will we settle this discrepency, or needn't it be settled? The premise for our Literature class is that the stories we read are more interesting than our real lives. Our lives and the lives everyone around are living aren't interesting. There's little worth mentioning in real life compared to stories of Literature and the issues they cover.

That being said, we must learn to read boring books because they may seem more boring than real life, but they're not. If we accept this idea then we will sift boredom out of our lives, but the problem is that people still believe that Literature isn't that important.