Being laid up on a week’s bed rest means at we’ve at least managed to finally get our longstanding idea for a blog/website for wannabe writers up and running.

Roundthecampfire.wordpress.com is a new idea where we regularly give you a couple of titles, and you use that stimulus and your imagination to write something. You can write whatever you like, in any genre and any style. It can be long or short, a novel or a verse. Go crazy!

You send it to us and we publish the ones we like. Then other folk get to read them. Simple as that.

You can download a submission form by clicking here or direct from Roundthecampfire.

The first two titles are up for all would-be authors. They are plucked, as you might imagine, completely at random from our iTunes library (our one golden rule) and they are Low Tide or The Sound Of The Crowd. All the details you need folks at Roundthecampfire.wordpress.com

And in honour of that, here are those two songs to mark the occasion. Classic 8os synthpop and some malevolent, twisted Americana. You’ll probably know which is which. Enjoy.

Download O’Death – Low Tide mp3 (from Broken Hymns, Limbs And Skin)

Download The Human League – The Sound Of The Crowd mp3 (from Dare)