I Need YOUR Help! (Not the Money Kind of Help.)

Hello everyone!

As you can probably ascertain from the glacial pace of posts lately, I have been rather swamped with work and attempting to find a more suitable place to live in my beloved H-Town. But in spite of this, my brain bone has been occupied with how much I’d like to give Burning Leaves a makeover. Since life isn’t an 80’s movie, I just can’t rip off her glasses and make her magically beautiful. Or was she beautiful all along and we just didn’t see it?

So I am asking you, my readers, what kind of content you guys would like to see more of on this site? For the past year, I have been only posting reviews and the occasional diversion, but I’d really like to expand my offerings. The only thing is, I’d still like for it to relate to literature, literary criticism, and writing. You’re not going to read about my excitingly dull lifestyle, partly because I actually want you to come back instead of dying an undignified death at your keyboard with a Large Marge expression and a puddle of spilled Mountain Dew in your lap…and partly because there are other venues where I write about that sort of thing.

Aside from that, though, I’d like your thoughts on what you’d like to see around here. There are already some ideas I’ve got firing through the ole neuron network, but since I write to share my love of books and reading and writing I’d like to see what sorts of things would interest you guys the most. I would like for Burning Leaves to be as engaging and enlightening an experience as possible, and I would be unable to do so without your valued input.

Aside from keeping it within the blog’s core theme, the only thing I won’t change is the layout and relatively image-free posts. I generally avoid pictures simply so those with slower browsers or connections as well as Smartphone users can load the page as quickly as possible. Other than that, though, I am very open to hearing what you have to say on the subject and get an idea as to how I can best cater to everyone’s interests. I am looking at other blogs for inspiration, of course, but it’s always nice to hear directly from the target audience as well.

Thank you very much, guys!

-Riot